Re: Boot failiure.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Rikard Johnels wrote:

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> I have been trying to install the 8.1 for the longest time now..
> It seems to be running ok. IF i boot it from the install CD and choose "Boot
> installed system"
> If i do
> >>>boot dka0
> I get the usual stuff from the system up to:
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> jumping to bootstrap code
> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9
> aboot: swithching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.46
> aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 6 0 0 0 0 0'
> aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
> ext2_init: bad magic 0x0
> aboot: mount of parttition 3 failed
> Welcome to aboot 0.9
> Commands:
> h, ? 		Display this message
> q		Halt the system and return to SRM
> p 1-8	Look in partition <num> for configuration/kernel
> l		List preconfigred kernels
> d <dir>	List directory <dir> in current filesystem
> b <file> <args>	Boot kernel in <file> (- for raw boot)
> i <file>			Use <file> as initioal ramdisk
> 				with arguments <args>
> 0-9				Boot preconfiguration 0-9 (list with l)
> aboot> l
> ext2_init: bad magic 0x0
> aboot: mount of partition 3 failed
> Partition 3 is invalid. Please specify another with 'p'
> aboot>

it's looking for the config-file aboot.conf in partition 3
inside the system you can probably do
# abootconf /dev/sda 1
to make it look in partition 1 (which is ext2 and readable for aboot).
to make it successfully read the aboot.conf file it might need this
additional hack:
# mkdir /boot/etc
# cp /etc/aboot.conf /boot/etc

now aboot should be able to find and read it's config file.



-- 
with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
      Ruediger Oertel ([email protected],[email protected])
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