Bug#116413: Alpha: Wrong partition No. for aboot
On Sat, 2001-10-20 18:26:15 -0400, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore-devel.com>
wrote in message <[🔎] oavghauewo.fsf@arroz.onshored.com>:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
>
> > After installing my videocard-less system (with more or less
> > PITA) I had difficulties to boot it. I've added an extra
> > partition for /boot (as I normally do for all other architectures
> > I am workin on as well), but this wasn't recognized by
> > dbootstrap. dbootstrap set my root partition's partition
> > number as the partition ID where to search /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-generic
> > in. Wrong.
>
> What exactly is the boot loader you are using? IIRC, Alpha has
> several.
aboot
> Are you sure a separate /boot partition is supported by the boot-loader?
Yes. After I inserted the correct entry into /etc/aboot.conf, the
next boot-up was fine.
MfG, JBG
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