RE: [cobalt-developers] RaQ-Boot from diskette

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> On start-up the kernel looks for the LCD device physically on the mbd, and
> when it doesn't find it, it calls a stop to the boot. There *is* a way
> round this, but its long, laborious and would make things difficult when
> you put things back into your RaQ.

Hmmm ... do you know anything about this hardware ?
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Only that its propriotary and not worth even trying to copy, stick to the next method of mounting the drive, etc.

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> What about having a spare PC, with a small HD that boots a Redhat6.2
> system, then mounts /home /var from the RaQ HDD in the second IDE channel
> and starts apache like that. You might need to do some symlinking, etc but
> it *might* work.

Well, i tried to mount the partitions "by hand" in a running SuSE system which is a bit similar to RedHat.
But the partition table seemed so strange i could only mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdc1 of the two drives.
Have you made any experiences concerning this?
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SuSE should have been fine (I'm a SuSE'er myself) and had no problems mounting the partitions before on systems that went screwy.
On my RaQ3's here I put the drive as secondary master, mount /dev/hdb4 as /home and /dev/hdb3 as /raqvar (to keep separate from my /var and then symlink)
It mounts fine as an ext2 and off it goes.

Only thing you might be having difficulty is if its a disk from a raid-array which I *think* some of the later RaQ's use (raq4+ ??)

I'm a little confused as to why you had two drives there?? Is this from a raid machine? In which case take a peek in /etc/raidtab and also on the fdisk -l /dev/hdb readout, preferably when the disk is still in the RaQ and see what you get.

Hope this helps you along the right path.

Regards,

Andy
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