Re: booting at last!
Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> writes:
> >>>>> "edmundo" == edmundo <edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk> writes:
> edmundo> I solved it! It boots! And I think the solution should go
> edmundo> into the installation notes somewhere. Please consider adding
> edmundo> something like this. (The crucial and new bit is the start of
> edmundo> paragraph 2.)
> Ok, I've trimmed it down quite a bit and added it to the installation
> manual.
> edmundo> Since I don't yet have a network connection, nor enough space
> edmundo> on the other disc for putting a tar file of my complete
> edmundo> system, I ended up using a rather strange partition table,
> edmundo> with a one-cylinder unused partition covering cylinder 0,
> edmundo> just to keep the stupid PROM happy:
> Funny, you say above that it's ok to put a file system partition on
> cylinder zero (and the silo documentation agrees). But here you say
> you had to put a non-partition to keep that cylinder blank.
You can't put a swap partition there. ext2 and ufs have a couple of
unused blocks at the beginning, so they coexist with the disk label.
I've always used an ext2 partition at the beginning of the disk
without problems.
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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