reassign 265597 aboot-installer thanks Hi Nathan, On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:13:33PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Machine: AlphaServer 2100 4x275 > Processor: 2 x Alpha EV45 275mhz > Memory: 512MB > Root Device: HW RAID5 on DAC960 controller, /dev/rd/c0d0 > Root Size/partition table: (a=aboot, b=/boot, c=/, d=swap) > 5 partitions: > # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 1* 1* 0* ext2 > b: 1* 39* 38* ext2 > c: 39* 14075* 14035* ext2 > d: 14075* 14319* 244* swap > Base System Installation Checklist: > Initial boot worked: [O] > Configure network HW: [O] > Config network: [O] > Detect CD: [O] > Load installer modules: [O] > Detect hard drives: [O] > Partition hard drives: [O] > Create file systems: [O] > Mount partitions: [O] > Install base system: [O] > Install boot loader: [E] > Reboot: [ ] > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it > Comments/Problems: > Well things are getting far better than they used to be. With the daily > from 20040812, I was able to get all the way to the installation of the > bootloader (aboot, since this is on an Alpha), which gave me this > message: > An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item > again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The > failing step is: Install aboot on a hard disk > I noticed that it appeared to be trying to install aboot to > "/dev/rd/c0d0p". If I remember swriteboot's usage, it should perhaps be > using /dev/rd/c0d0. Otherwise, it needs a partition number after the p. > Syslog tells me, > Jul 7 22:08:05 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: Menu item 'aboot-installer' selected > Jul 7 22:08:05 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: configure aboot-installer, status: 2 > Jul 7 22:08:05 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: configure chroot, status: 0 > Jul 7 22:08:18 aboot-installer: info: Installing aboot on '/dev/rd/c0d0p' > Jul 7 22:08:18 main-menu[258]: (process:5501): open disk device: No such file or directory > Jul 7 22:08:18 main-menu[258]: WARNING **: Configuring 'aboot-installer' failed with error code 1 > Jul 7 22:08:18 main-menu[258]: WARNING **: Menu item 'aboot-installer' failed. What a wonderful bug report to see -- this means makedev is fixed on alpha for DAC960 support, and now aboot-installer just needs to be updated to match. :) I'll see if I can't squeeze some time in for fixing this over the weekend. > I chroot'd into /target and manually did an swriteboot / abootconf > invocation: > cd /boot > swriteboot -f1 /dev/rd/c0d0 bootlx > abootconf /dev/rd/c0d0 3 > but then noticed that my /etc/aboot.conf wasn't going to be much help > (not sure if this would have been corrected had the aboot installation > completed, or not). It was: > 0:3/vmlinux.gz ro root=/dev/sda2 > 1:3/vmlinux.old.gz ro root=/dev/sda2 > 2:3/vmlinux.new.gz ro root=/dev/sda2 > 3:3/vmlinux ro root=/dev/sda2 Yes, aboot-installer fixes up the aboot.conf after it finishes installing to the boot drive. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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