On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Ryan Boder wrote:
> > Here is my latest attempt at installing the cooker from disk. The size > problem went away when I mirrored it on an ext2 partition instead of hfs. > > So I mirrored the cooker on an ext2 partition and it finished ok only > using 1.7 G like everyone said it would. Then I ran gendistrib described > in the howto and it worked fine. > > I added an entry to my yaboot.conf called cooker-install that looks like > this... > > image=hd:4,/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.13-12mdkBOOT > label=cooker-install > root=/dev/ram3 > initrd=hd:4,/boot/all.rdz-2.4.13-12mdkBOOT > initrd-size=36000 > append=" video=aty128fb:vmode:17" > > This is a copy of the aty128fb entry from the cooker boot directory except > changed to reflect my mirror partition on hda4. I ran ybin and added the > entry to my boot partition. > > Then I rebooted and chose cooker-install at the yaboot prompt which booted > Ok and got me to the point where you can choose your install method (FTP, > HTTP, NFS, CDROM, hard disk). I chose hard disk since the mirror is on my > hard disk, but instead of going into the graphical install program, it > said that "No partitions can be found". Then it asks what module to load > to get scsi access and gives me a list of modules to choose from. I > thought it should find the mirror and go into the installer. > > Am I doing something wrong here? > You might try the 2.4.4 kernel. Stage1 reads /proc/partitions to try and find the partitions, and it looks like the format has changed with the newer kernel, hence the "no partitions found". Still lookinga t what to do about it. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
