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PostPosted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:19 am 
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2 partitions are enough, just make it ext3 (which is default). Use 'create partitions' and 'custom partitioning for experts' for full control over partitioning. (these were from memory, but must be something similar :-) )

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Ok Peter
I think I have it installed on sbd4 as root. What are my new boot args please? (to boot the newly installed system)

Damn i'm reading the old 10.1 doc and I didnt use mkzimage. Am I screwed now? how can I boot the installed system?


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With yaboot, so just simply:
Code:
boot hd0:3 yaboot
It should start Linux automagically in a few seconds. If you want to pass additional parameters, you can also do that here.

Sorry for the confusion, I referred to the 10.1 docs only for parted.

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peter
I appreciate your patient help. when I try to boot with yaboot like so:

boot /pci/ide/disk@0,1:4 yaboot

It goes to boot and take forever, an error message about malloc (mem allocate) and something about bad firmware fixing myself or something... then it goes to another screen showing some pegasos ISA fixes and at the top another mem error and the last line says

prom_init

and then the peg reboots..???


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No idea, as it never crashed on me :-)

You can still try to boot the installed system (with some limitations), and run mkzimage. Just download the inst32 mentioned a few posts earlier, and boot it without any command line arguments. It should ask for a CD, and then you should be in a menu. There you can find 'boot installed system' in one of the sub menus. Choose /dev/sdb4. There will be some warning messages, that kernel modules can't be loaded, you can safely discard them. Once logged in as root, you can create a bootable kernel by:
Code:
cd /boot
mkzimage --vmlinux vmlinux --initrd initrd --output zImage
Then reboot, and you should be able to start the system with
Code:
boot hd0:3 boot/zImage
You'll need to repeat the mkzimage stuff each time you upgrade the kernel (I also tend to make a backup of /boot/zImage, but I never had to use it :-) )

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Dear Peter,

Booting with int32 does not work. It seems that the Suse install is trying to boot from the original files I booted with from my ubuntu partition (where I put the files from the cd to boot installer). It appears sym linked (or something?). What a mess! :) Could someone send me a zimage so I can put it on my afs boot partion to boot, cause this is very frustrating...

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Thomas


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:26 am 
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Which inst32 does not work for you? The one from 10.3 (as opposed to 11.0) boots fine on the Pegasos: http://download.opensuse.org/distributi ... oot/inst32 and even the 'boot installed system' part works fine (which does not work on 11.0 inst32, but hopefully will again on 11.1). All you need is to specify the right partition to start from :)

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