Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:14:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Sebastian Moeller <sebastian.moeller@lur.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107231853370.25535-100000@lx42.lur.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Help! Aboot can't find 2.4 kernel in SuSE 7.1 AXP
Hello Michael,
there was some discussion recently on the redhat list where
(I think it was Michal) elucidated that aboot might not be able to boot
kernels that are over 2GB away from the begining of a partition.
As SuSE IIRC installs the kernel after all the other stuff (and
plenty of other stuff I might add) it seems possible that this troubles
you. I guess that YAST, if not otherwise told, will create a small
partition and mount it under /boot automatically. (The beauty of aboot
compared to old lilos seems to be that while lilo was affected by the
cylinder number, aboot is said to be affected by the offset from the start
of its partition. Therefore it seems possible to move the /boot partition
to the end of the disk. That way the swap partition might get more of the
fast outer sectors of the disk).
On my as1000 5/300 the SuSE supplied kernel (RC1 though, not the
release version) was of no real use, as it always insisted upon checking
the filesystems on all ext2 partitions claiming they were dirty. A self
compiled 2.4.6 fixed that (for the price of breaking some cd issues).
BTW SAX2 is a sure bet to bring X to a grindig halt on ev5 (eve
the 4.1.0 suse supplied some time ago), but this will probably not affect
your xp1000.
I guess the take home message is try to move the kernel before the
2 gb limit in your partition or re-partition the disk with 'support' for
/boot. Maybe it suffices to cut a small, say 16MB strip away from your
swap partition to make room for the kernel without having to reinstall
from scratch.
Ahoi
Sebastian Moeller
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Champigny, Michael wrote:
>
> I just got the SuSE 7.1 AXP boxset and I've run into a couple of problems.
> First off, I could not get YaST2 to display with my Mach64 based ATI Expert
> 98. I then chose non-graphical Yast and the installtion went fine. I
> selected
> the 2.4 kernel and the installer copied the kernel to the disk.
>
> I rebooted and set up my SRM variables using boot flag 0. Aboot 0.7
> complained about not finding boot/vmlinuz.gz. Why did it do this? My disk
> has 2
> partitions...a swap and then /. I don't need a seperate FAT /boot partition
> for the
> kernel, do I? I thought that was only for ARC.
>
> SRM version is 5.9, machine is an XP1000, everything is stock.
>
> Please help...let me know what to set the SRM vars to so I can boot, and let
> me know if I need more than just the 2 partitions. I don't remember creating
> a
> seperate boot partition on this machine in the past with 6.4 but maybe I
> forgot about
> it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
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