[parisc-linux] PALO questions

[Mihails Nikitins]

Hi all,

1. PALO docs tell "recoverykernel" in palo.conf is the path to the kernel that
you want to boot within a failsafe session, it will be stored in the 'f0'
partition. Do I undertstand correctly that command like 
palo –I /dev/sda
copies file specified by paloc.conf line
--recoverykernel=/boot/vmlinux   ?

2. Is it possible to see f0 partition contents? In HP-UX, there are commands
working with LIF files like lifls and lifcp. How can I check if there is a
recovery kernel in PALO area?

3. I noticed palo warns about bad DOS magic. Is it normal?

# palo -I /dev/sda
palo version 1.0 bame@palinux Mon Apr  1 10:03:01 MST 2002
ELF32 executable
Bad DOS magic in extended partition 

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8683 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1        17     17392   f0  Linux/PA-RISC boot
/dev/sda2            18        50     33792   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3            51       563    525312   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda4           564      8683   8314880    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           564      4683   4218864   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda6          4684      8683   4095984   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Many thanks in advance for your clever comments!

BR,
Mihails