Hi Guido On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: >> >| ...more specifically, the booter is complaining: >> >| >> >| "Unable to load scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/linux: no >> >| recognizable filesystem on device >> >If u r using the SGI partitioning system/volumes/headers/whatever u call >> >~ it then u probably want scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) as ur >> >SystemPartition. note the 8 as the partition. worked for me. >> The volume-header (volhdr) is always the 9th partion on the harddiskt, >> (for Linux). It is the same an the 8th partition for the Indy. So >> scsi(0)disk(x)rdisk(0)partition(0) has always be >> scsi(0)disk(x)rdisk(0)partition(8), where x is your disk-id from the >> disk, where the kernel for booting is saved... >Is the message the installer prints confusing? Should we change the >message? Hmm I think, we need some additional Infos before partitioning the Hardisks. For example, that the volume is partition 10 and volhdr should be 9 or the kernel cannot be saved to boot the indy ... >Some more details on volume header stuff/dvhtool are at: > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/indy-boot/indy-hd-boot-micro-howto.html Is the link included to the instnotes in the bootfloppies? Regards Jan -- .''`. Jan-Hendrik Palic | : :' : ** Debian GNU/ Linux ** | ** OpenOffice.org ** ,.. ,.. `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://www.openoffice.org ,: ..` ` `- jan.palic@linux-debian.de | ' ` `
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