Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:53:51PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sven Luther" <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:03:43PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Sven Luther" <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> > > > > The only thing is that it can not install the bootloader... the
> > > bootloader
> > > > > should be copied to /dev/sda1 with dd but since i made automatic
> > > > > partitioning /dev/sda1 is / and so i don't think this is a good idea
> ;)
> > > but
> > > > > at least the system works...
> > > >
> > > > Which boot loader are you speaking about ? Quik ? Yaboot ? Something
> > > > else ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > oh my fault... I don't use a bootloader but i simply copy the kernel
> zImage
> > > to /dev/sda1 and the openfirmware boots from that...
> >
> > So you would need :
> >
> > /dev/sda1 : /boot <- macos or vfat filesystem on it ?
> > /dev/sda2 : /
> 
> i don't need a filesystem at all on sda1 since i copy the kernel there with
> dd if=zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1
> and then i can boot from openfirmware with "boot hdisk"

Ok, you boot directly from the bare disk.

It must be /dev/sda1, right ? 

I will check that partman knows about this. What is your box model again
? Can you send me a /proc/cpuinfo output ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther