HPPA: joint PALO and /boot partition
Hello,
I have installed Debian on HP yesterday. Everything went fine. Thanks
all working on the installer - great job.
The only thing that was different from what I read about HP-PA Linux
during preparation was the need for separate PALO and /boot partition.
According to PA-RISC/Linux boot HOW-TO there is new scheme which allows
sharing PALO and /boot partition. The filesystem on /boot is not created
with mke2fs, but with directly with PALO, which will mark few blocks at
the begining of the FS as used. These blocks are used as storage for
palo and possibly "recovery image/ramdisk" same way as the stand-alone
PALO partition (marked as 0xF0).
See
http://www.pateam.org/parisc-linux-boot/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/paloappusage.html#palonewscheme
It seems very usefull to me, but the Debian installer does not support
it - is it true? Maybe I missed something during the installation? I
think that it would be nice to add support for this PALO feature in
future versions of Debian installer.
Thanks Ales
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