Message-Id: <39A4D410.F7AB8F2F@ptb.de> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:51:44 +0200 From: Thomas Bruns <Thomas.Bruns@ptb.de> Subject: Booting SuSE6.3 with Alphabios from sda1???
Hi,
due to a crash I had to replace the system-disc in my PC164LX which was
running SuSE6.3 booting via AlphaBios (5.62) from the first Partition of
my SCSI-disc.
Now I´m not able to make it boot this way again !
What I did:
I partitioned the new disc like:
sda1: 60MB type 06 Fat16 => /boot
sda2: 2.3GB type 83 Linux native => /
sda3: 260MB type 82 Linux swap
sda4: 6.xxGB type 83 Linux native => /usr
This was done using an interims-installation on an IDE-HD. I made the
ext2-FS and mounted them without problem. I did mkdosfs -c -v /dev/sda1
and tried to mount sda1 without success mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /boot
reported no filesystem or other problems.
I restarted the system and let AlphaBios do the format of sda1, then I
could mount it!
I copied the Interims Install to the new partitions booted via the
install-floppies,
and started the system on sda2 so far so good, ++ this way the system is
running! ++
Now I copied the linload.exe and milo from the SuSE-boot-disc to /boot
and installed the generic kernel via yast "vmlinuz" on /boot. But the
attempt to boot from sda1 failed with milo being unable to load the
kernel, although "milo> ls sda1:" showed the correct files.
I consulted the SuSE Manual, Milo-Howto and Alpha-Bios-Howto but I'm
still still unsure about some points, like:
Is type 06 Fat16 the right partition type for AlphaBios/milo to boot
from?
Is linload or linload.exe the right filename on disk or in the
OS-Load-Setup?
Why does milo not "ls sda2:" nor "ls -t ext2 sda2:" the second results
in "invalid number of args"?
How do I make a mountable FAT Filesystem with linux?
Is the milo I'm trying from sda1: or a version which is in FLASH-Memory
(it is v. 2.0.35xx)
What went wrong anyway ?????
Any comments are very welcome !!!
Tia,
Thomas
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