Re: [suse-axp] Help! Aboot can't find 2.4 kernel in SuSE 7.1 AXP

From: Stefan Fent (sf@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 01:10:27 PDT

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    Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:10:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Stefan Fent <sf@suse.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0107241006540.20350-100000@d121.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Help! Aboot can't find 2.4 kernel in SuSE 7.1 AXP

    Hi,

    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.

    To be able to differentiate the 2.2 and 2.4 kernel, we decided to use
    vmlinux.gz for 2.2 and vm_24.gz for 2.4, and in /etc/aboot.conf the 2.4
    kernel is _always_ located in line 1 (eg: 1:2/boot/vm_24.gz ro root=/dev/sda2)

    With kind regards,

            Stefan Fent 

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