irasnyd
Apprentice
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 286
Location: Placentia, CA
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 Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 6:59 am Post subject: Help booting |
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I've got the system set up almost exactly as it is in the alpha guide. My differences are as follows:
1) I have an IDE hard disk (it's the only controller on the board, and I can boot off of it)
2) my bsd labels are like so:
a: 30MB starting at 7 (to leave space for aboot)
b: 512MB starting where a ends
c: whole disk default
d: 4GB starting where b ends
3) When the livecd detects my partitions, they are hda1 - hda4
Now I have installed the system completely, and got aboot installed. Here are the commands I used:
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swriteboot -f3 /dev/hda /boot/bootlx
abootconf /dev/hda 1
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Now I created an etc directory in /boot (hda1), and put aboot.conf in it. My contents of aboot.conf:
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0:1/vmlinux.gz root=/dev/hda4
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what I did for the kernel was config / compile it, then
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cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux
gzip vmlinux
cp /usr/src/linux/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux
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I have tried with both vmlinux and vmlinux.gz in the config file.
Everytime I try to boot, it gives me the usual boot messages (as if it was booting off the cd), but it just stops at "Jumping to bootstrap code" and goes no further.
Any help on this issue would be great. I will be away from the machine for about a week, but then I will be back to try any suggestions posted here.
Thanks in advance for all the help!! |
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