Re: palo / fdisk and debian installer

["kenneth westelinck" <kennywest1@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

I think there's something wrong in your setup. According to the installation
manual (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/hppa/ch-partitioning.en.html)
you'll need:
- a partition for palo, bootable, about 16MB -> type F0, not mounted (I
guess this will be /dev/sda1)
- a partition to put your kernel in, also about 16MB -> type ext2, mounted
on /boot (I guess this will be /dev/sda2)

Now you'll need to tell palo to find your kernel (in /etc/palo.conf):
--commandline=2/vmlinux HOME=/ TERM=linux root=/dev/your_root_fs

Hope this helps.


regards,

Kenneth

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 5:58 AM
Subject: palo / fdisk and debian installer


> First of all, my greets go out to the people enabling debian for hppa. I
> guess this is what GNU was all about since it's begining.
>
> I'm having some difficulties allowing my hppa machine (B132L) to write a
> valid IPL.  Here is a snippet of the action from the console:
>
> Main Menu: Enter command > bo pri
> Interact with IPL (Y, N, Q)?> n
>
> Booting...
> Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revisiion 150
>
> IPL error: bad IPL checksum.
>
> Error Reading IPL
>
> --- main menu --- (snip)
>
> There is a 16mb partition on /boot or /dev/sda1.
> The fdisk type is F0 and has the boot flag active.
>
> I chrooted to /target to run palo, (all fs mounted) and this is the output
> I receive:
>
> sh-2.05a# palo
> palo version 1.0 bame@palinux Mon Apr 1 10:03:01 MST 2002
> ELF32 executable
> partition start (mb) end (mb) id type
> 1         1          16       f0 Palo
> 2         17         93       83 ext2
> 3         94         215      82 swap
> 5         216        275      83 ext2
> 6         276        590      83 ext2
> 7         591        799      83 ext2
> 8         800        1229     83 ext2
> 9         1230       2046     83 ext2
> ipl: addr 32768 size 30720 entry 0x0
>  ko 0x0 ksz k64o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0
> <1/vmlinux root=/dev/dsa2 HOME=/>
> ipl: addr 32768 size 30720 entry 0x0
>  ko 0x48000 ksz 3687647 k54o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0
> <1/vmlinux root=/dev/sda2 HOME=/>
> sh-2.05a#
>
> Any help would be appriciated.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
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