Message-ID: <E536C8EE2A1FD31195370008C79FFA1F217038@world.cinnober.com> From: Lennart Börjeson <LennartB@cinnober.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:58:56 +0200 Subject: [SLE] SV: [suse-axp] AS1000/200 Mikasa booting
Please excuse if I am mistaken, but I think you can have both DOS and
disklabel partition tables at the same time. Just make sure they match!
My gut feeling is that this ought to be impossible; isn't both kind of
tables stored in the same place? But I believe I had such a setup up
and running once. I created both DOS and disklabel partitions from the
shell.
(I have an AS200 which currently runs SuSE 6.4, NT and W2k. I thus boot
it from ARC, but I have experimented with booting Linux from either SRM
or ARC when I also had VMS on it. It was easier to switch O/S:s when I
didn't have to also switch console. But I no longer have that setup
active, so I can't check.)
/Lennart
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Från: James Oakley [mailto:jfunk@funktronics.ca]
Skickat: den 3 juni 2001 23:03
Till: Lennart Börjeson; jfunk@funktronics.ca; suse-axp@suse.com
Ämne: Re: [suse-axp] AS1000/200 Mikasa booting
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On June 3, 2001 06:03 pm, LennartB@cinnober.com wrote:
> Have you tried getting it to boot from the SRM console?
Yes I have. The only problem is that SRM needs disklabel partitioning, which
appears to be incompatible with LVM. I found this out the hard way. If there
is a way to get it to boot off of a DOS partirioned drive, I'd be happy. Or
if there's a way to only use disklabel on the drive containing the root
filesystem, allowing the kernel to pick up the LVM stuff after it has
loaded.
That would work as all the drives are picked up in SRM and there is no crash
on loading the kernel.
With the hard drives as they are (4 2G, 3 1G) it's kind of useless to keep
them split up. I plan on using the box for storage and backup (it has a tape
drive).
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James Oakley
jfunk@funktronics.ca
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