From: James Oakley <jfunk@funktronics.ca> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:15:44 -0300 Message-Id: <01060621154500.03722@arthur> Subject: Re: SV: [suse-axp] AS1000/200 Mikasa booting
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On June 5, 2001 05:58 am, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
> 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.)
Ok, I managed to boot in a haphazard way with SRM (dka600 is my CDROM):
>>> boot dka600 -fl i
...
aboot> b 1/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda2
This worked, but I compiled my own kernel so the one on the CD is not the one
I want (my network doesn't come up) and SRM seems to only be able to boot a
kernel from the disk it resides on.
I did find this interesting post:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/86/2000/2/0/3372007/
Would this be ok? I can easily repartition /dev/sda1 to start at cylinder 2.
I'm just worried that swriteboot might wipe my partition table entirely. I am
a complete newbie to disklabels, SRM, etc.
If that doesn't work, would I be able to simply wipe /dev/sda and recreate it
using BSD disklabels, while keeping the other drives DOS-partitioned? I tried
installing 7.1 using aboot before, but LVM didn't work during the install.
YaST put disklabels on all of my drives...
Thanks,
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James Oakley
jfunk@funktronics.ca
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