Re: [8.1]Failiure o boot after install (revisited)

On Monday 27 September 2004 11.24, Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:14:00AM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> > Please; Can anyone walk me through a setup that WORKS!???
> > Or point me to someone who can...?
>
> You have to be more detailed in your problem report:
>
> - One of the most important things to tell is whether you use AlphaBIOS
> oder SRM Console on that system because this makes a difference in
> partitioning scheme. Output of "fdisk -l" might be helpfull as well.
>
> - The other thing is that you should be as detailed as possible about error
>   messages. What is the exact wording of the errors?
>
> If you do not provide that information, everything people can do is wild
> guessing. My current Guess-of-the-Day is that you have an incompatible
> partitioning scheme on your disk. I can remember problems of YaST handling
> this situation. Although this might have been fixed for 8.1. My experiences
> with this problem are with 7.1.
>
> Robert

SRM as per 8.1 instructions

Disk /dev/sda: 2111 MB, 2111864832 bytes
65 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4030 * 512 = 2063360 bytes

3 partitions:
#       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:        3        13        11       ext2                      
  b:       14       144       131       swap                      
  c:      145      1022       878       HPFS           
                                        ^^^^ changed to all 
conceivable settings

The partiton table is fine. As i can boot the installed system from CD.
But aboot complains about the third partition
No matter what i set it to it doesn't know how to boot it. :(

What is the right ID for the "c" (/ partition) if i use reiserfs?

8 (ext2) isnt right. 

ext2_init: bad magic 0x0
boot: mount of partition 3 failed
Partition 3 is invalid. Please choose another with 'p'

0 (unused), a (unknown) or b (hpfs)  isn't right

boot: mount of partition 3 failed
Partition 3 is invalid. Please choose another with 'p'

seems like aboot and SRM doesnt know how to handle reiserfs formatted 
partitions...
What can i do? I want/need this machine to start unattended,
as it is to be a server.

-- 
         /Rikard

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