[gentoo-alpha] boot issues

[gentoo-alpha] boot issues

[jwsacksteder]

I can tell this is going to hurt.

MILO apparently does not support my platform- Rawhide(1000,4300,530x).

I have a linux md raid-5 root partition. 

The boot device must be either the floppy or CD and the kernel image must
reside there as well.

I'm guessing the kernel will be too large to get onto a floppy. Perhaps the
most direct solution would be to modify the livecd image to be my boot
media.

Suggestions?  

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] boot issues

[Aron Griffis]

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jwsacksteder@ramprecision.com wrote:	[Thu Oct 09 2003, 11:19:39AM EDT]
> I can tell this is going to hurt.
> 
> MILO apparently does not support my platform- Rawhide(1000,4300,530x).
> 
> I have a linux md raid-5 root partition. 

Why oh why?

> The boot device must be either the floppy or CD and the kernel image must
> reside there as well.
> 
> I'm guessing the kernel will be too large to get onto a floppy. Perhaps the
> most direct solution would be to modify the livecd image to be my boot
> media.

Did you get this figured out?  I'm curious what you did.

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RE: [gentoo-alpha] boot issues

[jwsacksteder]

>> I have a linux md raid-5 root partition. 
>
>Why oh why?

Was actually much nicer than when I last looked at Linux sw-raid, back in
the .50 days.
Why the trepidation?

>> I'm guessing the kernel will be too large to get onto a floppy. Perhaps
the
>> most direct solution would be to modify the livecd image to be my boot
>> media.
>
>Did you get this figured out?  I'm curious what you did.

I'm dumb. I was thinking the system.map needed to be on the floppy for aboot
to work. I just made an ext2 boot floppy with aboot on it, built most
everything as modules, and configured aboot to pass root=/dev/md0 as a
kernel parameters and it took right off. All that needs to be on the floppy
is the aboot boot block, loader, aboot.conf and kernel. No ramdisk needed.




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Re: [gentoo-alpha] boot issues

[Aron Griffis]

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jwsacksteder@ramprecision.com wrote:	[Sun Oct 26 2003, 12:47:37PM EST]
> >> I have a linux md raid-5 root partition. 
> >
> >Why oh why?
> 
> Was actually much nicer than when I last looked at Linux sw-raid, back in
> the .50 days.
> Why the trepidation?

Oh, I wasn't suggesting md is a bad thing, just shaking my head at the
thought of using md for my root partition.  I would personally run my
root partition as a single disk, then use md for /usr etc.

> I'm dumb. I was thinking the system.map needed to be on the floppy for
> aboot to work. I just made an ext2 boot floppy with aboot on it, built
> most everything as modules, and configured aboot to pass root=/dev/md0
> as a kernel parameters and it took right off. All that needs to be on
> the floppy is the aboot boot block, loader, aboot.conf and kernel. No
> ramdisk needed.

Nice.

Aron

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