At 17:36 18-7-2001 -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: >On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:53:22PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote: > > > > I am having trouble getting the mipsel packages installed using the > > installer provided for 7.1. > > > > > > I have hooked up a second disk to my i386 workstatition that will house > > the filesystem for my mipsel box. Once everything is installed I will put > > this disk back in my Qube2 for testing. In the worst case scenario I will > > need to boot with the 2.0 kernel that came with the cube. > > > > I have the original disk for the Qube2 so it isn't a big problem if it > > takes 50 attempts. I have a lot of patience ;-) > > > > Am I correct to assume that I need to use the install.i386.hd on my > > workstation to install the mipsel packages on the second harddrive (hdd in > > my case) > >No. It should be install.mipsel.nfs. install.mipsel.hd is for the >native mipsel machine install. Thank you, it worked :-) > > Traceback (innermost, last): > > File "./findrpm", line 5, in ? > > import rpm > > ImportError: No module named rpm > > > > Does this ring any bells? > >You need to install the rpm-python rpm. And again, thank you. >install.mipsel.nfs is used to create a NFS root tree for mipsel. If >you tar it up, you get what you are asking for. Will do once it works. Everythinhg seems to be installed like it should and I copied the 2.0.34 cobalt kernel to /boot on the Qube2. I have enabled the serial console of the Qube2 and see the firmware scroll along. BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1 Decompressing done Executing bootloader kernel... Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again. BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1 etc.. Qubes don't have the second IDE controller so this is nonsense ;-) Does anybody know what's missing? Do I need to format the ext2 root fs in a special way? Do I need to pass on other bootoptions and if so. How do I get to a command line prompt of the firmware? I see that the NetBSD people did that to make it boot another kernel. I thought that the firmware from the Qubes just boot the vmlinux.gz image that it finds in the /boot directory on hda1? Any help appreciated. Cheers -- Seth Every program has two purposes one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't I use the last kind.
