Re: getting a second disc set up as a bootable
If you are running an older kernel (e.g. from the 0.9.2 ISO), with
the sim700 scsi driver rather than 53c700, you probably want to boot
with "sim700=nodisc:0xff" included in the palo boot params.
Richard
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:26:20AM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Thanks for the insights into the mysteries of "palo". I attempted the
> chroot suggestion, but ran into file access problems (unrelated to
> palo). I had to power down, reboot and try the disc copy once more
> before attempting "palo" in a "jail".
>
> Alas, the "find | grep | cpio" hung, and I had to hit the power button
> once more, and upon reboot, the system hung when getting "syslogd" up
> and running. Probably this occurred as the file system became
> corrupted upon power down, and "fsck" was unable to clear up the
> errors (although this was not indicated at reboot time).
>
> Do you think that the disc copy hangs due to contention on the SCSI
> bus? Note that a good filesystem and a "fsck" check was run before
> attempting the copy. If my suspicion is correct, then perhaps
> introducing a delay of some sort in the "pipe chain" might fix the
> problem.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean
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>
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