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by **di..** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:06:03

I hawe now gotten debian installed on my alpha pc164. The problem is
that I'm not able to boot from harddisk so I hawe to use an boot floppy
witch I don't want and don't really know how to update the kernel on.

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by **Falk Hueffne** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:11:15

> I hawe now gotten debian installed on my alpha pc164. The problem is
> that I'm not able to boot from harddisk so I hawe to use an boot
> floppy witch I don't want and don't really know how to update the
> kernel on.

This is a bit too few information. Are you using SRM or ARC? Which
boot floppy version did you try? Why didn't it work? Why do yo think
you need to update the kernel on it?

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Falk

by **di..** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:22:25

> This is a bit too few information. Are you using SRM or ARC? Which
> boot floppy version did you try? Why didn't it work? Why do yo think
> you need to update the kernel on it?

I'm running srm and I'm at the moment running kernel 2.2.20.
The boot floopy I'm running now is that one that was made by the debian
setup. Prefrebly hawing an bootloader on disk would be nice.

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by **Falk Hueffne** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:30:45

> > This is a bit too few information. Are you using SRM or ARC? Which
> > boot floppy version did you try? Why didn't it work? Why do yo think
> > you need to update the kernel on it?

> I'm running srm and I'm at the moment running kernel 2.2.20.
> The boot floopy I'm running now is that one that was made by the debian
> setup. Prefrebly hawing an bootloader on disk would be nice.

Well, this should work... did you select "Make System Bootable" from
the menu? If not, you can make it bootable later via the swriteboot
command. Just make sure the hard disk uses BSD style disk labels, and
the first partition starts at cylinder 1 to leave space for the boot
loader.

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Falk

by **di..** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:41:15

> Well, this should work... did you select "Make System Bootable" from
> the menu? If not, you can make it bootable later via the swriteboot
> command. Just make sure the hard disk uses BSD style disk labels, and
> the first partition starts at cylinder 1 to leave space for the boot
> loader.

I did selecs "Make system bootable" when I installed but it failed and
it said something about no space. And I was not able to use BSD disc
lables due the fact that debian's fdisk did not save it but I did start
at cylinder 1

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DInet aka Henrik Ericsson
He whom dispays misc. madness

by **Falk Hueffne** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:48:45

> I did selecs "Make system bootable" when I installed but it failed
> and it said something about no space. And I was not able to use BSD
> disc lables due the fact that debian's fdisk did not save it but I
> did start at cylinder 1

Well, you really need BSD disk labels, DOS partitions won't work even
if you do start the first partition at cylinder 1. So what exactly do
you mean with "debian's fdisk did not save it"?

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Falk

by **di..** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:52:01

> Well, you really need BSD disk labels, DOS partitions won't work even
> if you do start the first partition at cylinder 1. So what exactly do
> you mean with "debian's fdisk did not save it"?

When I had partitioned the disk BSD stile and was on my way to install
on it the setup said I did not hawe any partitions. Mabe I need to
reinstall but that is something I dont want to do but mabe I will..

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DInet aka Henrik Ericsson
He whom dispays misc. madness

by **Falk Hueffne** » Sun, 26 May 2002 02:55:00

> > Well, you really need BSD disk labels, DOS partitions won't work even
> > if you do start the first partition at cylinder 1. So what exactly do
> > you mean with "debian's fdisk did not save it"?

> When I had partitioned the disk BSD stile and was on my way to install
> on it the setup said I did not hawe any partitions.

Hmm, weird, seems like something went wrong with rereading the
partition table. A reboot would have helped there probably...

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Falk

by **di..** » Sun, 26 May 2002 03:27:20

> Hmm, weird, seems like something went wrong with rereading the
> partition table. A reboot would have helped there probably...

I will trye an reinstall and an reboot after partitioning

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DInet aka Henrik Ericsson
He whom dispays misc. madness

by **Malte B?hm** » Tue, 28 May 2002 06:37:53

hi,
i had the same / a similar problem installing suse 7.1 on my pc164.
i had freebsd installed, whis is used to an bsd disklabel :)
i tried to overwrite the label with a new dos label, but didn't worked.
i did an low level formating of the whole disk and after that i had an new
(and running) dos label ... i guess now making a new freebsd disklabel
should work ...

> > Hmm, weird, seems like something went wrong with rereading the
> > partition table. A reboot would have helped there probably...

> I will trye an reinstall and an reboot after partitioning

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> DInet aka Henrik Ericsson
> He whom dispays misc. madness

by **di..** » Tue, 28 May 2002 07:53:19

That system is now up and running and booting from disk. fdisk is a
hassle at times.. Now I'm joust gonna try some things on it, like mosix

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