On Fri 17 Mar, Darren Swansburg wrote:
> I've installed ARM Linux on a RISC PC and I installed it on a partition
> higher than 512MB. After installing it, it will not boot. How do I go
> about creating a bootdisk?
The easiest way to boot if you can't boot from the image in the linux
partition is to use !linux to load a kernel from your ADFS partition. So,
use the kernel file you originally used to do the installation. Copy this
into (say) ADFS::4.$.ARMLinux.kernel
Then use a little Obeyfile to load and boot this image, with your linux
partition as the root device.
Something like:
ADFS::4.$.armlinux.!Linux -bootkernel ADFS::4.$.armlinux.kernel -args
"root=/dev/hda3"
Change the paths if necessary. The 'root=/dev/hda3' is correct for the
common case where your root partition is on your first IDE hard disk, and
is the 3rd parition. (The first being ADFS, the second the 'linux
table').
Obviously if you later recompile/update the kernel then you need to copy
it over to your ADFS partition.
Wookey
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