Thanks. That was the part that I was missing. I forgot about the SRM and
know where to get aboot on the drive.
THanks (sorry for the obvious, right in front of my face question),
James
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James Fowler
Graduate Student Political Science & Latin America
Arizona State University
jamesvi@asu.edu ICQ: 22088266
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Alan Keane wrote:
> 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
> > > --
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> > > 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
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