On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:57:32AM +1300, Steven Jones wrote: > I am trying to get an Alpha box running Debian to autoboot, the machine > boots to the aboot prompt, but then I need to type 0 to get it to boot, > I need it to auotboot. > Second problem is how do I get the autoboot.conf to commit to disk? I have > installed a new Debian 2.6 kernel, and the sym links have been changed to > point to the new kernel, however at the aboot prompt the box still shows 0 > as the 2.4 kernel and no 2.6 kernel is shown. The filename is aboot.conf, not autoboot.conf. The actual path to this file is /etc/aboot.conf, *relative to the root of the partition that aboot is configured to look at*. If you have a separate ext2 /boot partition (because your root partition is not ext2 formatted), then the config file you need to edit is /boot/etc/aboot.conf. For that matter, the symlinks that need to be managed for the kernels and initrds are also located in /boot -- even though by default, the kernel packages manage symlinks in / instead. The bootloader management tools for alpha have always been less mature than on i386, and this particular limitation hasn't been resolved in time for sarge; but at least for fixing the future symlink management, you can set link_in_boot = Yes in /etc/kernel-img.conf. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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