Fwd: Got RH6 on the Jensen...I think

[David Rysdam <drysdam yahoo com>]

Oops, wrong list name.

--- David Rysdam <drysdam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:42:31 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Rysdam <drysdam@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Got RH6 on the Jensen...I think
> To: redhat-axp@redhat.com
> 
> Well, I got RH6 installed on my Jensen.  Kinda.
> 
> The problem was the firmware--everybody take note:
> the
> 1.7 firmware available (file size 344064) is NOT
> RIGHT.  The right one is 1048661 bytes.
> 
> After some messing around with partitions (I used
> the
> "bsd disklabel" option of fdisk), I got everything
> installed.  Then I went to restart.  I got down to
> the
> aboot prompt and typed:
> 
> 0/a root=/dev/sdb
> 
> (my kernel is on sda, sdb is my root partition and
> sdc
> is my swap).
> 
> After some bootup messages I get messages about
> /dev/sdb not being the right format and I do want to
> boot into "maintenance mode".  Sure, I says, typing
> in
> my root password.  When I fdisk sdb and sdc, I found
> they had no partitions.  What's going on here??
> 
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