Subject: Re: Red Hat Rawhide/Alpha
From: Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Date: Sun Nov 28 1999 - 07:14:00 AKST
Chris Kloiber wrote:
>
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
> > Are you using e2fsprogs-1.17 and partition from which you are booting
> > is bigger than 1/2 Meg in size?
Oops. Make this 1/2 Gig in size. :-(
> I currently have a 4meg (asked for 2) dos partition as hda1, and milo will
> boot from there.
And put your kernel on the same partition.
> The problem comes after milo loads. Normally you can 'ls'
> the ext2 partitions from milo but with the 'sparse superblocks' as you call
> them way you get is a bunch of lines of useless garbage,
This is not surprising as both 'aboot' and 'milo' are not aware
of this particular sub-variant of a file system.
'aboot' includes (look at sources) a quite rudimentary rudimentary
support for some file systemes. Enough to find and load few named
files but no symbolic liks or "Rock Ridge", for example. 'milo' relies
on kernel sources so it is more capable and 'ls' normally does work.
But avaialable milo images are built with 2.0 kernels. If you will
format your disk using e2fsprogs-1.18 defaults and you will try to
boot one of kernels from 2.0 series you will have big troubles
as new format "additions" will be not understood.
> Once an actual kernel is loaded, the ext2 partitions can be
> accessed normally.
This is not surprising as well; your kernel knows how to handle a
partition formatted that way. As I suggested before - put your kernel
on the same partition where your milo is. Your boot command will look
something like that:
boot hda1:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/hda2
There was never a requirement that kernel has to be located on your root
partition or on ext2 partition. When using FAT partition only make sure
that a name for a boot image you are using fits into 8+3 scheme.
Another solution for now (good both for 'milo' and 'aboot'); put your
kernel on ext2 partition formatted the same way as it used to be. As
mounting / from a "small" partition (200-300M should be plenty) is a
sane and recommended thing to do this should not be a hardship anyway.
Michal
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