problems with palo and multiple disks

[iniTeX]

hy everyone,

i nearly finished installing gentoo on a hp 712/60. despite from the remarkable long time for emerging packages (yes i knew it before ) i have one remainig problem:

3 scsi disks are attached to the box:
sda1 -> /
sdb1 -> /usr
sdc1 -> palo, f0
sdc2 -> /boot
sdc3 -> swap
sdc4 -> /home

sdc is internal and sda and sdb are external disks.

how should /etc/palo.conf look like?

--commandline=2/linux-2.6.5-pa8 root=/dev/sda1 HOME=/
--init-partitioned=/dev/sda

did not do the job and i ended with a kernel panic.

another source of wisdom told me:

root= tells the kernel which partition it must mount as the root file system while booting.
It can be tricky when you have more than one disk.

what to do?
greetings, iniTeX
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dashi delegs

[achmetbenmuli]

Hi,

what's the message in your kernel panic?
Maybe it would be easier to get your palo- and boot-partition onto sda, for example:

/dev/sda1 * 1 32 32752 f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot (palo)
/dev/sda2 33 64 32768 83 Linux (/boot)
/dev/sda3 2017 17501 15856640 83 Linux (/)

palo- and boot-partitions do not need much space.

Regards,
Achim

[iniTeX]

Hi,

I cannot remember the message of the kernel panic.
Sorry.
But there was 'normal' boot sequence which ended up after not finding the root-partition and the usr-partition.

I solved the problem by moving the /home to /dev/sda1 and the / to /dev/sdc4.

it seems that palo wants the palo-partition, the boot-partition and root-partition on the same physical hard-disk...

Thanks, iniTeX
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dashi delegs