twoblu
06-03-2000, 10:25 PM
Hey Alpha geeks-
I'm installing RH 6.2 on an AS 200 4/166 and doing my best not to retreat into MILO. This system came with OpenVMS and a chingered hard disk. I replace the b/o HD with one from a previously NT machine. I install RH 6.2 from the CD (no problems) and used fdisk so I could get a BSD label on the new HD (I tried Disk Druid and it didn't auto convert the DOS partition table, not that I should expect it to). So, the current situation:
sda (dka0) - the new HD
a ext2 cyl 2-18, sda1 /boot 16M
b ext2 cyl 19-1018, sda2 /home 982M
sdb (dka100) - an orig HD that was good
a swap cyl 2-132, sdb1 <swap> 256k
b ext2 cyl 133-1019, sdb2 / 1745M
When I try to boot from srm, like:
boot dka100 -fi 1/boot/vmlinux-2.2... -fl root=/dev/sdb2
aboot comes up from dka100 (sdb), but I get the aboot error: "don't know how to mount partition 1 (filesystem type 1)". I think type 1 in BSD speak is swap, but from the label it is pretty clear that the first partition on sda1 is ext2.
The aboot message before the "don't know ..." error is: "booted_dev='scsi 0 6 0 2 100 0 0', guessing boot_device='scd0'". I'm not sure what this is trying to tell me, but I do know that the SRM var, boot_dev = dka100.1.0.6.0. On the other hand, the SRM var bootdef_dev = dka0.0... which is the OTHER disk. Should this be set to my other disk, dka100? Anyway, if anyone can help me out here I sure would think that was neat!
If you got this far, thanks for reading,
Jason
I'm installing RH 6.2 on an AS 200 4/166 and doing my best not to retreat into MILO. This system came with OpenVMS and a chingered hard disk. I replace the b/o HD with one from a previously NT machine. I install RH 6.2 from the CD (no problems) and used fdisk so I could get a BSD label on the new HD (I tried Disk Druid and it didn't auto convert the DOS partition table, not that I should expect it to). So, the current situation:
sda (dka0) - the new HD
a ext2 cyl 2-18, sda1 /boot 16M
b ext2 cyl 19-1018, sda2 /home 982M
sdb (dka100) - an orig HD that was good
a swap cyl 2-132, sdb1 <swap> 256k
b ext2 cyl 133-1019, sdb2 / 1745M
When I try to boot from srm, like:
boot dka100 -fi 1/boot/vmlinux-2.2... -fl root=/dev/sdb2
aboot comes up from dka100 (sdb), but I get the aboot error: "don't know how to mount partition 1 (filesystem type 1)". I think type 1 in BSD speak is swap, but from the label it is pretty clear that the first partition on sda1 is ext2.
The aboot message before the "don't know ..." error is: "booted_dev='scsi 0 6 0 2 100 0 0', guessing boot_device='scd0'". I'm not sure what this is trying to tell me, but I do know that the SRM var, boot_dev = dka100.1.0.6.0. On the other hand, the SRM var bootdef_dev = dka0.0... which is the OTHER disk. Should this be set to my other disk, dka100? Anyway, if anyone can help me out here I sure would think that was neat!
If you got this far, thanks for reading,
Jason