more AC1 install problems on SX164

[Michael Kronsteiner]

Hello, Michael again! (with a little more experience now)

You definitely need a /boot partition, i had the same problems on my sx164,
and with my /boot partition everything works fine.
My Partition scheme:
(2x Seagate 40GB Disks)
Sector 0-1 8Mb Free Space Partition a
Sector 1-20 /boot partition Partition b
Sector 20-4500 / partition  Part. d   (i need the space for /home)
Sector 4500- swap
2nd Disk is 1 partition /usr


Do not use a "c" partition, as this one is meant to be the whole disk...
with this setup everything should work "out of the box" after installing.

best regards
Michael
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Hoover, Tony" <hoover at sal.ksu.edu>
> An: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
> Betreff: RE: more AC1 install problems on SX164
> Datum: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:25:32 -0500
> 
> I typically setup my small partition as /boot, and my larger partition as
> /.
> 2 gig ought to be large enough for your system, but is it possible that
> your
> kernel is residing too far into the partition?  I've never used IDE on
> Alpha
> for anything other than CD-ROMs, but I know that on some x86 systems you
> had
> to force your kernel to be in the first 65536 (I think) blocks of the hard
> drive, thus the recommendation of having a 10~30 MEG partition at the
> first
> of the drive for /boot.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> T
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: more AC1 install problems on SX164
> 
> Okay, I've managed to create a BSD disklabel and
> whatnot, and it seems to work beautifully during the
> install. There is, I think, 7 or more megabytes of
> space left before the beginning of the first
> partition. aboot sees and reads this partition nicely.
> The rescue variant on the first CD reads and writes to
> this partition nicely. However, the kernel panicks
> when trying to mount /dev/hda1 as root (untouched
> aboot configuration as generated by the installer).
> I've copied the kernel from the CD and used that one
> but that didn't help. Both fail with an error message
> about VFS not wanting to sync becouse it cannot mount
> the root fs on unknown-block(3,1). I'm at a loss about
> what to do now. The drive is on the 1st IDE channel
> master, 20 gigabytes big and the / partition on it is
> 2 gigabytes big (becouse I think aboot didn't like a
> 20 gig partition). I also have a SCSI disk in there
> dedicated for swap and another one for /home data.
> /usr is the rest of the disk (18 gigs). 
> 
> What can you make of this?
> 
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