RedHat 7.2 on ES40 AlphaServer - Boot Problem - Help Solving
Dialup Jon Norstog
thursday at allidaho.com
Sun Dec 13 19:53:31 UTC 2009
Jim,
Thanks for the clarification on all that. Unless you tell them differently
Fedora and Ubuntu will dump everything into one big / directory. The Alpha
Core distros based on Fedora will do the same thing, but at least you can do a
custom partition install. On the latest Ubuntu you can not even do a text
install and the graphic install is pretty much useless for a custom partition
scheme.
Anyway, I think the old Unix users' habit of putting the /usr directory onto a
separate partition, or better yet, a separate disk, is the way to go
Especially if you have valuable programs or data, like the OP.
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Jim McCarthy" <jkmccarthy at pacbell.net>
To: "Linux on Alpha processors" <axp-list at redhat.com>
Cc: valhalla-list at redhat.com
Sent: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:00:59 -0800
Subject: RE: RedHat 7.2 on ES40 AlphaServer - Boot Problem - Help Solving
> Jon --
>
> On my DEC PWS 600au that still runs RH7.2 for Alpha (dual boots with
> latest hobbyist version of OpenVMS for AXP :-), like Bill I have a
> separate /boot partition, and during startup "aboot" pauses with a prompt:
>
> aboot>
>
> Replying with "l" for list, it says:
>
> NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that all kernel
> paths are relative to /boot/
>
> 0:1 vmlinuz-2.4.9-32.5 root=/dev/sda2 initrd=/initrd-2.4.9-32.5.img
> console=tt
>
> ...and so on. Entering zero at the aboot> prompt sends it on its merry
> way....
>
> -----
>
> So the /etc/aboot.conf that aboot failed to find on Bill's old
> system disk is (I believe) really located at:
>
> /boot/etc/aboot.conf
>
> Meanwhile on my RH7.2 Alpha Linux system, if I do a directory
> listing of /etc, I do see that there is a symbolic link that points to
>
> /etc/aboot.conf --> /boot/etc/aboot.conf
>
> ... but I don't know if "aboot" requires this at startup, or if
> indeed (like the aboot NOTICE above says) that all paths are
> relative to /boot/ including /etc/aboot.conf ?
>
>
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