Re: installing debian on IBM 43P-150 (CHRP)
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:58:03PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:45, Leigh Brown wrote:
> > Philippe Guyot said:
> > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:27, Leigh Brown wrote:
> > >> Philippe Guyot said:
> > >> > On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:01, Leigh Brown wrote:
> > >> >> Indeed. Could you just tell me if it booted from CD automatically?
> > >>
> > >> [...]
> > >>
> > >> >> I guess I can raise a bug for these once I've confirmed that autoboot
> > >> >> from CD is working for you.
> > >> >
> > >> > Good news: It boots automatically
> > >>
> > >> Great!
> > >>
> > >> > Bad news : At end,the install said there was not stuff for booting
> > >> > automatically from HD this hardware and that I have to boot
> > >>
> > >> /boot/vmlinux
> > >>
> > >> > on /dev/sda1 whith argument root=/dev/sda1.
> > >>
> > >> Okay. Did you create a PReP boot partition (type 0x41) during the
> > >> installation process, either manually, or with help from the installer?
> > >>
> > >> > I tried from OF boot disk;:/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 with no
> > >>
> > >> success
> > >>
> > >> > (return to prompt after accessing HD a little)
> > >>
> > >> That's because OF doesn't understand ext2, ext3, and the like.
> > >>
> > >> > May I have to boot yaboot from cd ? and after ??? I should read
> > >>
> > >> yaboot
> > >>
> > >> > man page, don't I ?
> > >>
> > >> If you already have a PReP boot partition, as I mentioned above,
> > >> then you can boot the installer and drop into a shell to install
> > >> yaboot into it. Otherwise, I'd repeat the installation, this time
> > >> making sure to create the PReP boot partition. Also, make sure
> > >> yaboot is installed during the installation. With luck, having the
> > >> correct boot partition and yaboot installed might trigger the installer
> > >> to do the right thing. If not, drop back into a shell at the end of
> > >> the installer and manually setup and configure yaboot before rebooting.
> > >>
> > >> Reading through the yaboot docs before this may make things easier.
> > >
> > > Well, do you mean that the CHRP box boots like a PReP machine ?
> > > And if so, why not dropping in the PReP partition the vmlinux patched
> > > whith preptools as I did for my 43P-140 ?
> >
> > No. CHRP and PReP share the same partition type to boot from, but
> > they boot different things. CHRP machines boot ELF executables (like
> > yaboot or CHRP vmlinux images). PReP machines boot PReP boot images.
> >
> > So, you will write the yaboot executable (stamped with the correct
> > note section) to the PReP boot partition on a CHRP machine.
>
>
> OK I understand that.
>
> But I have a problem in partionning:
>
> It's a new (for me) tool : partman and I can't find how to create a PReP boot
> partition with it. (There's no choice for it nor an obvious way to force code
> x41).
You can create the partition, and once it is written (while it is downloading
stuff, but before yaboot-installer is run), you go to console 2, and run
parted, and do a set <minor> prep on (try print to find your <minor>).
partman-prep has not yet been written, volunteers welcome to do it, look at
d-i webpage on how to gte the svn tree, and then look at partman-palo which is
quite similar to what we need.
> I tried whith a "do not use" but this did not triggered the installer .
>
> I'm thinking of creating a new iso image with an "old" cfdisk on it and
> partitionning in the shell if possible.
Should not be needed, see above.
Friendly,
Sven LUther
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