PReP booting
After much pain, sweat, tears and two internet service providers, I've
managed to install Debian Etch on my RS/6000. Now I just have to figure
out how to make it bootable. The first partition is type 41 PReP boot.
On the root partition I have /boot with kernel 2.6.18... and ram disk,
etc... The directions (written for sarge) that I've been following say
to copy vmlinuz to the PReP partition using 'dd if=... of=...' Since I
don't have vmlinuz, I assumed the kernel image. So, I copied the kernel
image to the PReP partition and rebooted as suggested.
Obviously, it didn't work or I wouldn't be writing this. Now that I'm
going through the painful process of building a live system again to
work on it, I really want to do things right this time. I have a boot
folder with all the files I would normally need on a PC. Can anyone
help me on what to put on the PReP partition and how to get it there?
Once I get this thing to boot, I'll just copy the system to the disks of
the other 3 hard drives I have.
The directions I've been following are here:
http://www.ifh.ee.ethz.ch/~rharbers/rs6000/rs6000.html
Perhaps I just made my boot partition too large. I've seen on a Woody
install page that anything greater than 10Meg will cause problems. Just
in case, I've just partitioned a second disk this morning with a PReP
partition of 10Meg. I'm still trying to get the needed files loaded to
format the second disk with ext3. I sure wish I'd done all this before
rebooting.
Anyways, I need to know what to put on the PReP partition and how to get
it there. Am I even close?
Thanks,
Greg
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