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On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:56 pm, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:31 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > One theory I have is that the instruction guide never told me where to
> > > mount the f0 partition. So far as the computer knows, it's just
> > > sitting there, probably not being written to.
> >
> > that's because you cant mount it. running palo takes care of all that
> > magic.
>
> Actually, that's not necessarily true. If you have palo version 1.4 or
> later, then the palo partition can be formatted as ext2/ext3 and mounted
> just like any other partition.
>
> However, by default palo will create unmountable partitions.

touche salesman ;)
lemme rephrase ... the default gentoo setup is such that you never have to
mount the partition ... setup /etc/palo.conf and run palo
-mike

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On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:48 pm, Ben Fisher wrote:
> What do you do about /etc/fstab for the f0 partition? Can that make palo
> stop working?

nothing ... just pretend the partition doesnt exist :)

> I read some stuff last night online about HPUX users having similar
> troubles if they did not run "lifinit" to initialize the LIF image. Is
> there a command in Gentoo which does this? Is palo supposed to take care
> of it?

i believe so ... of course more experienced people could talk about this; ive
never used HPUX

> Is there anything else I could have done wrong to create this problem?
> Since you have a working c3600 with Gentoo, could you send me a copy of
> your /etc/palo.conf, /etc/fstab, and any other configuration files you
> think important?

here's my fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 50.0 GB, 50019202560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6081 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3 24066 f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot
/dev/sda2 4 10 56227+ 83 Linux (/boot)
/dev/sda3 11 133 987997+ 83 Linux (/)
/dev/sda4 134 6081 47777310 83 Linux (/usr)
[no swap, the machine has ~3gigs of ram :D]

fstab:
/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda4 /usr ext3 noatime 0 2

palo.conf:
--commandline=2/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 term=ttyS0
--init-partitioned=/dev/sda
--recoverykernel=/boot/vmlinux.old

palo:
palo version 1.5 root@hake Fri Oct 1 13:58:29 EDT 2004
ELF32 executable
Partition Start(MB) End(MB) Id Type
1 1 23 f0 Palo
2 24 78 83 ext2
3 79 1043 83 ext2
4 1044 47700 83 ext2
F0 partition start sector 63 length 48132
do_ra(1, 5, 3, -1, '2/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 term=ttyS0', 4, -1, 32256,
24643584)
check_bootloader 213
checksum(0x2f270, 36864) = 0x00000000
ipl: addr 32768 size 36864 entry 0x0
ko 0x0 ksz 0 k64o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0
<2/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 term=ttyS0>
check_bootloader 650
checksum(0x26268, 36864) = 0x00000000
ipl: addr 32768 size 36864 entry 0x0
ko 0x48000 ksz 4727926 k64o 0x0 k64sz 0 rdo 0 rdsz 0
<2/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 term=ttyS0>

> Finally, what Graphics card are you using on your machine? I think I've
> still got the FX-e card in my system, and I'm thinking about trading it for
> an ATI Radeon so I can run X, KDE, etc.

mine still has a Visualize FX4 ... the box is acting as a dev server for
Gentoo, so i never bothered screwing with X on the box
-mike

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