Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

[Frank Fegert <fra.nospam.nk@gmx.de>]

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:36:10PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote:
> >From memory it is creating three partitions - boot, swap and /. The boot
> partition is position 1 iirc.

i'd probably start with the guided partitioning and modify from
there to your own needs. A bootable setup looks like this in my
case, with sda2 being "/":

    host:/# sfdisk -l
    Disk /dev/sda: 36864 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track
    Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
      for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 36864/64/32).
    For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
    Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
    
       Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1   *      0+      0       1-      8001   41  PPC PReP Boot
    /dev/sda2          1     122     122     979965   83  Linux
    /dev/sda3        123    4698    4576   36756720   8e  Linux LVM
    /dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

Is yours a LPARed environment with disks mapped from VIO servers,
or are the disks real physical ones?

Best regards,

    Frank