Re: /boot

[Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:55:19PM -0500, Harry Cochran wrote:
> Fourth try to identify error:
...

How about reading "palo --help"?

> SinoHub5:/etc# cat palo.conf
> --commandline=1/vmlinux initrd=1/initrd.img root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/
> --format-as=2
> --update-partition=/dev/sda
> SinoHub5:/etc# palo
> palo version 1.5 bame@c3k Tue Sep 21 15:14:17 MDT 2004
> OK we're doing a format as ext2
> ipl: addr 16384 size 36864 entry 0x0
> Warning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Boot loader header version is 3, I only know how
> to handle version 4.  It MIGHT work anyway.

Could you replace "--update-partition=" with "--init-partition="?

I'm expecting palo to blow everything on f0 away and build a new
ext2 file system. THen you can:
o mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
o copy /boot/* /mnt
o edit /etc/fstab so /dev/sda1 is mounted on /boot.

If that boots, then:
o unmount /boot
o rm /boot/*
o mount /boot

As you might guess, the order is important. :^)


> This, plus 10 tries at booting, all tells me that:
> 
> 1. You can't specify a recovery kernel with this method (not very comforting
> ... but palo "finds" 2.4.27-32 every time anyway). I was wondering why you
> didn't specify one in your example. Now I know.

One isn't needed. palo can list the contents of an ext2 directory.
So any vmlinux/initrd can be used if palo can list it.

> 2. initrd has nothing to do with the v3 vs. v4 problem

right

> 3. I can't find the magic in front of the symlinks vmlinux and initrd.img to
> get 2.6 to load. I get "failed to load ram disk" every time with 10 tries at
> initrd=x, where x is 0/initrd.img, 1/initrd.img, 1/boot/initrd.img,
> /boot.initrd.img, etc. Or maybe it's something else entirely.

Can you dump the following info (cut/paste to a shell):
fdisk -l /dev/sda
mount
cat /etc/palo.conf
ls -l /boot

The "ls" command assumes the f0 partition is mounted on /boot.

>  Having an f0
> partition and an e2 /boot is looking pretty good right now!

/boot on f0 partition definitely works.
I'm certainly not the only one using it.

hth,
grant