Re: new to alpha -- having trouble booting new centos install from ha rd-drive following install on ES40

[Pasi Pirhonen <upi centos fi>]

Hi,


On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:45:01PM -0400, Scott Pendergast wrote:
> Hi we've recently inherited some ES40's DS20's and a bunch of DS10L Alpha
> boxes we'd like to run Centos 4.x on and all goes well until the reboot
> following the install.
> 
> I've tried halting at SRM and trying to explicitly boot from the hd but keep
> getting errors indicating no valid boot block is found on the target drive.
> >From what I've read I suspect it is something to do with aboot, etc.  I'm
> new to the Alpha, so don't know if the boot track should have to be manually
> written to the drive after install, if the installer is supposed to take
> care of that for you, etc.  I've tried various partitioning schemes, etc and
> the aboot.conf changes acordingly so it would appear that the installer is
> taking care of aboot but I can't be sure.
> 


CentOS-4/axp is currently officially out of support. I did EOL it from
my part at end of August and i am not aware of anyone maintaining it
currently.

If you still insist to install it, i do suspect that you do hit the
'infamous bug in anaconda which isn't fixed by me and everyone should
know about it anyway' (AlphaCore does have this supposedly fixed tho :)

So when you start partioning, forget the 'automatic crap' and do the
manual partioning with disk druid. Then with the empty layout (if there
is something, delete those) you place the 'curson' in like over the
/dev/sda and select 'edit' where you do make a partion for /boot which
start from sector 1 (not 0) which will leave first cylinder free for
aboot. The fact being that aboot is just dumped to begining of the disk
and if there isn't space, it's wipeing out something valuable .... HTH



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