Hi; [tehkok@linux4:~ 3]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdd Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 79656 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 1 2081 1048544 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 2081 4162 1048575 82 Linux swap /dev/hdd3 4162 6242 1048580 83 Linux /dev/hdd4 6242 79656 37000893+ 5 Extended /dev/hdd5 6242 8323 1048578+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd6 8323 10403 1048578+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd7 10403 12484 1048568+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd8 12484 14564 1048568+ 83 Linux [tehkok@linux4:~ 4]$ So I `dd if=mb-0.3.bin of=/dev/hdd6 bs=1024 count=150` and hope it works. Now there are 2 questions: (1) where to put mb.conf? (2) how to specify the 6th partition on YAMON? YAMON> disk read hda 3f ff 800d0000; go 800d0000 Thanks. Regards, KH -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Oldham [mailto:beth@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 6:17 PM To: Teh Kok How (IFAP DC COM WL SD) Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Nachtmann Friedrich (IFAP DC COM WL SD External); kurt@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: YAMON booting Linux kernels from malta board harddisk.... 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
