On 4/17/07, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
I can now do the first 3 steps with /boot mounted on the palo partition. At step 4 I run into a problem: - it is not possible to run palo on a mounted partition - if I unmount it and run it without '--format-as=2', the existing ext2 file system is lost - if I unmount it and run it with '--format-as=2', the partition is formatted again and existing data is lost too It appears that the -U option was intended for this use case, but that has been disabled and looks to be abandoned.
Hmm, I have no problem running palo with -U on a mounted partition: varenet@daisy:~$ ls /boot/ System.map-2.6.18-3-parisc64 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp.bak System.map-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp initrd.img.old config-2.6.18-3-parisc64 lost+found config-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp vmlinux initrd.img vmlinux-2.6.18-3-parisc64 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-parisc64 vmlinux-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp initrd.img-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp vmlinux.old varenet@daisy:~$ sudo -s Password: root@daisy:~# palo palo version 1.14 kyle@duet Sat Apr 8 16:08:23 EDT 2006 ipl: addr 262144 size 36864 entry 0x0 ko 0x0 ksz 0 k64o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0 <1/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 initrd=1/initrd.img> root@daisy:~# umount /boot root@daisy:~# mount /boot/ root@daisy:~# ls /boot/ System.map-2.6.18-3-parisc64 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp.bak System.map-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp initrd.img.old config-2.6.18-3-parisc64 lost+found config-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp vmlinux initrd.img vmlinux-2.6.18-3-parisc64 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-parisc64 vmlinux-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp initrd.img-2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp vmlinux.old root@daisy:~# cat /etc/palo.conf --update-partitioned=/dev/sda --format-as=3 --commandline=1/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 initrd=1/initrd.img HTH T-Bone -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/