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

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 09.26, Robert Schiele wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:11:18AM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote:
> > 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
>
> This table is incorrect.  The third (c) partition should be the "whole
> disk" partition.  It has to span the whole disk and should not be used to
> place a filesystem on it at all.
>
> > The partiton table is fine. As i can boot the installed system from CD.
>
> The fact that something works does not necessarily mean that everything is
> correct.
>
> > 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?
>
> You should place the kernel on a non-reiserfs /boot partition.  If this was
> the case, the id of the reiserfs partition does no longer matter because
> Linux does not care about the id.
>
> Robert

Thats the point!
I HAVE placed the kernel on /boot (which is ext2)
I HAVE tried using a c partition spanning the entire disk
And either combination fails.
No matter what i do, aboot never gets past the booting.
 
-- 
         /Rikard

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