Re: Installing aboot ?

2007-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:03:28AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Does anyone have any pointers for installing the bootloader in alpha? I'm pretty familiar with changing the master bootrecord on intel disks, and grub and lilo, and I've read the man pages and /usr/share/docs and googled on

Re: Installing aboot ?

2007-03-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:03:28AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: If I try to do it from inside the chroot, if doesn't work because it can't see the drive really, just like you can't fdisk from in the chroot. Presumably because you don't have a populated /dev. That's

Re: Installing aboot ?

2007-03-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:03:28AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: If I try to do it from inside the chroot, if doesn't work because it can't see the drive really, just like you can't fdisk from in the chroot. Presumably because you don't have a populated /dev. That's

Re: Installing aboot ?

2007-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:54:49AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Thanks, that helped get it a little further along, then it actually was finding aboot.conf, but couldn't find vmlinuz, finally I realized that the aboot.conf was screwed up, it had 0/3 /vmlinuz when it should have been 0/1

Installing aboot ?

2007-03-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
Does anyone have any pointers for installing the bootloader in alpha? I'm pretty familiar with changing the master bootrecord on intel disks, and grub and lilo, and I've read the man pages and /usr/share/docs and googled on aboot, but I'm obviously doing something wrong. I got one basic