Re: debian-hppa on a C8000

Hi Lothar,

On 13.03.19 23:10, Lothar Paltins wrote:
> thanks for the answer. Something must have gone wrong here. I've
> repeated the upgrade and now it works!
Very good!

> I did save the disk partition images directly after the installation
> and before the upgrade. I cloned them to a different disk and
> repeated the update/upgrade. This time it was successful and it still
> works after a reboot. I will now try to reinstall R300_cp.bin and see
> what happens.

Unless you want to debug why the ring test fails on parisc when loading 
the ATI card driver, I'd suggest to skip that. 

> BTW, I've seen, that the UUID of the root partition is hard coded in
> the kernel command line in the first MB of the disk. To avoid
> problems with duplicate UUIDs, I've changed the partition UUIDs of
> the cloned disk and therefore the boot loader didn't find the root
> partition. I've changed it directly on the disk, but what is the
> "official" way to change the parameters of the boot loader?

I think editing /etc/palo.conf and rerun "palo -v". 

Helge