Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I didn't remember that I had to create the partitions from last to >> first, I'm pretty sure I didn't do that when I installed woody on the >> machine a year ago. Anyway, I eventually figured out and partitioned >> the disk. Had to create an SGI disklabel on it, as it comes from a PC. > > What do you mean with "last to first"?
I had to create sda4 first, then sda3, etc. I started by creating sda1, starting at cylinder 11 and up to cylinder 90, but afterwards fdisk insisted on sda2 being created in the range 0-10 (ie before sda1). But it's been over a year since I last used fdisk on this machine, so maybe it isn't something new and I just don't remember. Anyway, it seems weird. >> Disappointment : no XFS support :((((( >> >> The bootloader installation went fine, but, unfortunately, it doesn't >> handle a separate /boot partition, so the machine couldn't reboot. > > Well, the firmware has no problem with booting from arbitrary > partitions, so a separate /boot makes little sense, and arcboot > doesn't support it. This should be documented better. d-i should either workaround the "problem" (as I did), or it shouldn't offer to create a /boot partition that will lead to a non-booting machine :) /boot makes sense in my case, because I intend to use XFS on this machine, and I think arcboot doesn't handle XFS. Moreover I plan to do some tests on the machine, and should it crash, I'd like to keep /boot safe, so it can still boot and recover. JB. -- Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]