Re: Alpha installation
Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
I am trying to install testing on a Alpha system using netboot images
(http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ ) . While
running the partitioner it is complaining that aboot need /boot to be
an ext2 file system. Even after creating /boot as ext2 i am still
getting the same error message. Choosing to yes or no also doesn't work.
If you want to have 1 large ext3 partition, during the partitioner
create your 3 1 MB partitions at the end of your drive. Then create a .5
MB partition and the start of the drive. Next delete the 3 1 MB
partitions at the end of the drive. Create an ext3 partition at the
start of the drive ?? MB or ?? GB minus the swap-space. Then create the
swap-space. After delete the .5 MB at the start of the drive. Now you
should have a .5 blank space at the start of the drive. a ext3 partition
and a swap-space. finish the installation and after the aboot-installer
fails go to the main-manu and select the skip aboot installer. goto vt2
or boot from a rescue disk and type chroot /target OR mount /dev/??? as
/ . type "swriteboot -c1 /dev/??? /boot/bootlx" where c is the
partition number and /dev/??? is the dev name. DONT REBOOT. Now goto
/etc and edit aboot.conf. "nano aboot.conf" change the first
luncommented to "0:1/vmlinuz ro /initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/???" where
0"1 is going to be the "-flags 0" after you type "boot ???" at the SRM
and the 1 is the partition number like /dev/hda1. Now reboot.
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