Hi James,
As far as I know :
The SRM requires a BSD disk label on the disk you wish to boot from,
so if you wish to type :
boot dka0
Then the dka0 disk must have the BSD disk label, or else the SRM can't load
aboot.
Regards
Alan Keane
akeane@quadrics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jamesvi@asu.edu>
To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie question about booting.
> So if I only wanted to run Linux on my alpha, booting from the SRM, then I
> 1) still need to use BSD Disk labeling?
> 2) it doesn't matter that I set up the BSD disk label because Linux
doesn't
> care about it?
>
> Sorry I'm a little slow. Most of the info that I have comes from the FAQs
> that I have read. I thought that aboot can't find the boot block on the
> harddrive unless BSD style disklabeling is used. I understand the
implication
> (yes BSD; no whole disk label) I just want to have the concept right so I
can
> be operating from the right assumptions when I try things with my alpha -
or
> read about what others are doing. Thanks for the responses.
> james
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
---- > James Fowler > Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America > Arizona State University > jamesvi@asu.edu ICQ: 22088266 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > > Jamesvi@asu.edu wrote: > > > > > > Just a curiosity, but I recall (as I had to do it again last week) that c: > > > should be the BSD disk label that encompasses the entire disk no? Please > > > help me out if I am mistaken because I would like to better understand BSD > > > disklabeling. Without that aboot would be unable to actually boot the > > > device no? Just curious. > > > > Actually, no. > > OSF/1 (or whatever its current name ist) uses partition 'c' for > > accessing the whole disk (much like /dev/sda in linux). Therefore you > > probably won't be able to start OSF/1. > > Everyone else does boot happily with any layout you care to do. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > Hannes > > -- > > Hannes Reinecke <civhr@civ.hw.ac.uk> > > Fluid Loading and Instrumentation Center Tel: (+44) 131 449 5111 x4430 > > Dept. of Civil & Offshore Engineering Fax: (+44) 131 451 3154 > > Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with > > 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with > 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com > >-- To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com
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