Date: 19 Sep 1999 17:00:40 +0200 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909191653260.21231-100000@fatou.suse.de> From: "Ruediger Oertel" <ro@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Jensen and yast
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 moeller.s@lur.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> Hi Alpha Afficinados!
> I am trying to get suse axp running on my old jensen...
> So I report the status up to now and ask my questions later.
> The installation kernel from the aboot disk does not work. (I have a
> working aboot already on my disk so I was able to boot at all.)
> It hangs while trying to start kswap.
> Using a working 2.2.12 kernel it is possible to go through linuxrc quite
> nicely. Then yast seems to activate fdisk only in "dos"-modus and there
> is no way to get it to read bsd-partitions. (I would have given up at that
> point, if I had not paid 98 DM for the distribution)
Hi,
unfortunately YaST's way of running fdisk can not create BSD partitions.
But this can be done using plain fdisk on console 2 and rebooting after this.
The reboot is needed because fdisk doesn't call the neccessary IOCTLs after
modifying bsd-partition labels.
Now that you have the bsd-partition labels, yast will however detect these
and accept these partitions for the installation. The whole procedure should
be mentioned in the manual (at least I hope so).
> Nevertheless if one copies the contents of the rpm packages to the
> designated bsd partition (I used mc but rpm2cpio and cpio should do the
> trick as well) it is possible to boot into suse 6.1. There although the
> systemn is running yast still thinks it has to install the system, when
> invoked and still does not see bsd partitions.
Well it should. Do you have a second disk with DOS-partitions on it ?
In this case yast on 6.1-axp was still faulty, but this has been fixed
internally (to be included in the next release.)
> So my first question is where does yast look for which partitions to use?
> After studying the yast sources for a short time I believe it must be in
> /etc/install.inf. Is that true, if yes what does this file look like?
> Could someone send me a copy of a proper install.inf.
install.inf is created by linuxrc to pass information to yast. In order to
detect partitions, yast tries an "fdisk -l" and if this yields no parttions,
it scans for bsd-disklabels using fdisk.
> Oh and, X seems to lock up my machine under 6.1 after some random time. No
> X no console no telnet, nothing (not even sysreq works)....
Any messages in syslog about this ? What kind of graphics card is used ?
Does it happen on a loaded or idle system ?
>
> Anyway TIA
> Sebastian Möller
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with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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