Re: Installed Debian, but it is not bootable
On Saturday 15 May 2004 00:27, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> You probably haven't made a volume header. fdisk should show a partition
> table like this one:
>
> Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1020 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes
>
> ----- partitions -----
> Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
> 1: /dev/sda1 boot 5 945 3908914 83 Linux native
> 2: /dev/sda2 swap 946 1019 307396 82 Linux swap
> 9: /dev/sda3 0 4 20770 0 SGI volhdr
> 11: /dev/sda4 0 1019 4237080 6 SGI volume
> ----- Bootinfo -----
> Bootfile: /unix
> ----- Directory Entries -----
> 0: linux sector 4 size 2031824
No, I did create a volume header. What I was missing (as I find out booting
into the semi-installed system using the rescue disk) was a directory entry
with the kernel. With dvhtool, I copied the one at /boot to the volume
header, changed the firmware variables as you told me and everything worked
nicely :-)
> Dvhtool installs the linux kernel in the volume header, where the
> firmware can boot it. For newer versions of Debian, it installs the
> arcboot bootloder, which can boot kernels from ext2/ext3 partitions.
> arcboot is already available in woody.
Any document on how to do this? 'man dvhtool' doesn't help much...
> You can switch between IRIX and Linux only by changing the firmware
> variables, arcboot doesn't support booting IRIX yet.
Ok, no problem with that.
Thank you.
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