Re: Indy R5k - install, but no boot
Hi,
Charles-Eloi wrote:
> It seem that the kernel doen't find your root
>partition like /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb2. Check your
>nvram settting about the booting partition.
>ex.:
>setenv OSLoadPartition /dev/sda(x) /* where x is the
>linux partition */
OSLoadPartition=/dev/sda1
>setenv SystemPartition scsi(0)disk(y)partition(z) /*
>where y is the disk on which you have your system root
>1 is sda and 2 is sdb, z is the SGI irix style
>partition name when you prepared your disk for
>installation... 1 or 2 or 3, up to 7 don't give 8 or
>10 which are volhdr and volume partition */
Well, according to Guido's mini-howto,
SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)partition(8)
should be OK. It outright refuses to boot with
SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)partition(0)
or
SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)partition(1)
with the message that there's no recognizable filesystem on it.
My SGI disklabel is almost the same as in Guido's example:
Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 boot 5 900 3721984 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 swap 901 1016 481864 83 Linux native
/dev/sda9 0 4 20770 0 SGI volhdr
/dev/sda11 0 1016 4224618 6 SGI volume
I can not remember if the SGI volume was sda11 or sda10, though. Well,
as I just came home from a lenghty bug-squashing session at work, I'll
go to bed now, will post dvhtool output tomorrow. I left the Irix kernel,
sash and other stuff in the volhdr. Could that be a problem? Should I
re-start with an empty SGI label?
TIA,
Uli
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