KokHow.Teh@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I need to load the mipsboot into /dev/hda1 that reads the
configuration from /dev/hda1/boot and boots linux kernel from
/dev/hda1/boot/*.
Can you leave a partition without a filesystem? The bootloader image
needs to be dropped into a known position and written as a contiguous
block...
For comparison the MIPS/TimeSys hard disk configuration:
-bash-3.1# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 20 10048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 21 15522 7813008 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 15523 31024 7813008 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 31025 71906 20604528 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 31025 31994 488848+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 31995 47496 7812976+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 47497 62998 7812976+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 62999 63968 488848+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 63969 64938 488848+ 83 Linux
The first partition is reserved for the bootloader. It doesn't have to
the first it was just convienent to me, it could be any, so if you can
shuffle the partitions up slightly and have a couple of MBytes at the
end perhaps?
and /dev/hda1 is formatted as ext3 BOOT partition. Is it
possible to do that?
The bootloader will cope with an ext3 filesystem.
Beth
