Re: Retry: Trouble booting installed Debian Sarge on 43p 150
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Leigh Brown wrote:
| Philipp Vollmer said:
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|>4. What kind of disklabel should I create on my disk? I have an old 9 GB
|>disk in my RS6000 which has a MSDOS Disklabel - is that correct? Maybe I
|>need to change certain things on my partition layout. It looks like that:
|>MSDOS-Disklabel on 9 GB SCSI Disk
|>1. 30 MB fstype=raw prep-boot=on Partition
|>2. 8 GB data partition (/) ext3
|>3. 700 MB Swap Partition
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|
| You definitely need to use the MS-DOS partition scheme. However, your
| boot partition looks a bit big. No larger than 4MB is what is normally
| recommended. There have been problems reported with too large boot
| partitions in the past, although I'm not sure if that will help in
| your case.
|
| Other than that, your partition layout looks quite sane.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Leigh.
|
Hello,
thanks, that solved my biggest problem. Linux boots now - but I don't
have normal access to the machine ( the keyboard isn't recognized,
although it is the original keyboard ) nor have I access via serial
console ( first time yaboot failed booting the kernel, now cannot even
boot anything, OF crashes accessing to the disk,cdrom ...).
But at least the system is booting. Assuming I didn't destroy the
hardware yet, I'll give sarge a second try to find out whether it is
possible to use the keyboard or serial console.
Greetings
Philipp
P.S: I cannot install via serial console because yaboot isn't installed
and I cannot change to a second terminal to do that per chroot /target;
apt-get install ...;ybin. Is there a sarge-ppc image which installs
yaboot automagically?
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