Re: how-to? aboot/SRM

Stephen Torri <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 13:14, Mike Marsh wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thanks for your help.  I also found help by reading what the aboot ebuild
> displayed at the end of the installation.
> 
> I think I got aboot successfully installed, but aboot fails to mount
> partition 2.  Here is a summary of my fstab:  
> /dev/sda1  /boot  ext2   
> /dev/sda3  /      ext2
> /dev/sda2 none    swap
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> aboot> b /boot/vmlinuz
> aboot: don't know how to mount partition 2 (fileystem type 1)
> aboot: mount of partition 2 failed
> aboot>

Isn't the second partition on /dev/sda the swap partition?

Will it boot if you do the following:

SRM> boot dka0 (pick the appropriate HD) -fl root=/dev/sda3

Stephen


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