[parisc-linux] 712/60 boots fine

Richard Hirst rhirst@linuxcare.com
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:14:07 +0100


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Andreas Härtel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my 712 is running now. I've found my own mistake after many hours...
> 
> It is difficult to understand for a newbie, that PALO needs file system type
> 'F0' but this type is unknown by fdisk.

Partition type F0, not a file system type.  Recent fdisk versions do
know F0 as "Linux/PA-RISC boot".

> Or the 2. mistake, the partition where vmlinux is located must be lower or
> equal 2 GByte.

Yes, that has caught me too in the past, I guess it should be
checked by palo or the installer.

Richard