(fwd) [suse-axp] AS250/266 SuSE 6.4 CD boot problem

From: Michael Galloway (mgx@ornl.gov)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2000 - 10:29:57 PDT

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    Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:29:57 -0400
From: Michael Galloway <mgx@ornl.gov>
Message-ID: <20000718132957.M26283@sif.lsd.ornl.gov>
Subject: (fwd) [suse-axp] AS250/266 SuSE 6.4 CD boot problem

    ok, this is interesting (maybe a little, anyway). so i've got these AS250's.
    one i'd been playing around with suse 6.3 and one with tru64 unix on it. when
    i tried to install 6.4 on the one i had 6.3 on it failed to boot (cdrom or
    floppy) with the error in the earlier email (attached). here is the
    interesting part. i'd written a BSD disk label to the disk with a partition
    like:

    a /dev/sda1 boot (1-2)
    b /dev/sda2 /boot (48MB)
    c /dev/sda3 swap (128MB)
    d /dev/sda4 / (rest of disk).

    i was able to get 6.3 install using the 6.1 aboot and install diskettes but it
    was a little tedious. now 6.4 fails to install on this disk. sooo, i built
    some debian floppys, booted debian, rebuilt the disk using fdisk leaving
    cylinders 1-2 free. debian booted fine from aboot. next i tried to boot the
    suse 6.4 CD using the debian formated disk, boots fine. at the partition
    screen i dropped into a shell, and rebuilt the about partition table using
    fdisk and now 6.4 fails to install again on this machine. sooo i grabbed a
    fresh, tru64 unix, AS250 out of the rack, 6.4 cd boots fine but fails to boot
    after i build a BSD disklabel.

    so what is the correct way to partition out the disk for booting from SRM
    console?

    -- michael

    attached mail follows:

    Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:47:11 -0400
From: Michael Galloway <mgx@ornl.gov>
Message-ID: <20000711084711.A3954@sif.lsd.ornl.gov>
Subject: [suse-axp] AS250/266 SuSE 6.4 CD boot problem

    good day all ...

    i've got a herd of AS250's i'd like to install SuSE6.4 onto.
    when i try to boot from CD or from floppy i get this same error:

    aboot: starting kernel /etc/vm_full.tgz with arguments rw root=/dev/fd0

    halted CPU 0

    halt code = 6
    double error halt
    pc = 14400
    boot failure

    sho boot* at the console prompt is:

    boot_dev dka400.4.0.6.0
    boot_file
    boot_osflags
    boot_reset off
    bootdef_dev dka400.4.0.6.0
    booted_dev dka400.4.0.6.0 

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