Olaf, When I use force_fat and run lilo it says: ERROR: !!! unknown option force_fat !!! I must admit, it is the first time I run lilo myself and I know see that it is lilo that gives an error message from yast when I do the installation. I've just ignored the error and for the normal (non smp) kernel it never gave me problems... Lilo gives a warning about shrinking the prep partition to prevent firmware confusion. Not sure if this is default or could be a reason for the bootproblems. This is the lilo output after removing the '-s 8': linux:~ # lilo running on chrp Boot target is /dev/sda Warning: Shrinking PReP boot partition /dev/sda1, avoiding firmware confusion Installing /lib/lilo/chrp/yaboot.chrp onto /dev/sda1 Converted /etc/lilo.conf to /etc/yaboot.conf setting open firmware variable boot-device to '/pci@fef00000/scsi@c/sd@8,0' No common Block found No common Block found old boot-file (contains addition OF boot args for kernel, but breaks yaboot): No common Block found No common Block found linux:~ # Erik. Olaf Hering wrote:
On Wed, Aug 03, Erik Janssen wrote:
linux:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 4512 MB, 4512701440 bytes 139 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8618 * 512 = 4412416 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1 4278 41 PPC PReP Boot /dev/sda2 5 184 775620 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 185 1022 3610942 83 Linux
There should be enough room for a FAT partition. Please add the global option 'force_fat' to your lilo.conf. Remove the '-s 8' option from /sbin/lilo and see if loading the kernel from FAT works better.
grep -n mkfs /sbin/lilo 615: mkfs.msdos -s 8 $OPTION_BOOT || exit 2
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