Re: 43p-140 install issues (the end ?)
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:36:36PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:21, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > >
> > > Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk
> > > problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition....
> >
>
> Ooops, ...after 0.3 MB ...
>
> > More probably a size limit. Make sure you set MODULES=dep in
> > /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf. The initrd should be 1.5MB and the kernel 1.2
> > or so yielding a kernel+initrd which is a bit below the 3MB.
>
>
> It was a true harware error on one sector of the disk at the very beginning.
> So I left a free space of 1 MB before sda1,sized sda1 at 7 MB, dd
> vmlinuZ-2.6.8-powerpc on it and it boots.
> Nice!
> Thanks for your help.
>
> But I realized one thing while trying to isolate the problem: Changing
> size/place of partitions with cfdisk needs a reboot for beeing ackowledged by
> the kernel.....I'll see if there is already a bug report for that.
Just use parted, which should not suffer from this problem.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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