Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2003 15:14 schrieb Tyson Whitehead: > Sounds like you must have installed a new copy of aboot at some time > on the front of your drive (i.e. did a 'swriteboot /dec/sda bootlx' > -- bootlx is built with the Alpha kernel and contains the aboot > image).
hm, I installed aboot when installing woody. > If you were doing repartitioning, etc, make sure you left space at > the front of the drive for aboot (the swriteboot man page advises you > leave 512 sectors). Otherwise there will be problems once Linux > starts using that swap partition. :) I left that space back then... Until now, Linux seems not to have a problem using that swap partition. > In any event, the problem is that your newly installed aboot is > configured by default to look for your /etc/aboot.conf file on the > first partition. Use 'abootconf /dev/sda 2' to change that to the > second partition. I guess a 'abootconf /dev/c0d0p2' will do the correct thing for me, since I boot from a raid? > You will have to change the /dev/sda bit to your correct boot device. uh, what? Lars
