I am trying to boot a successfully system using LinuxBIOS + filo payload. Right now I can currently get to filo. I Can mostly boot off a livecd, but dies eventually because my root isn't specified correctly. Instead of messing with the CD boot (since my system will boot from a HD eventually anyway) I decided to install a minimal centos system on a spare hard drive. I partitioned the hard drive as follows:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 3166 MB, 3166765056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 385 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 287 2305296 83 Linux /dev/hda2 288 385 787185 82 Linux swap
hda1 is formatted as ext2. When I get to filo I type the command to boot the kernel and I get some sort of partition error on hda1, here is the output:
boot: hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 malloc_diag: alloc: 408 bytes (5 blocks), free: 15968 bytes (1 blocks) malloc_diag: alloc: 424 bytes (6 blocks), free: 15952 bytes (1 blocks) file_open: dev=hda1, path=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 8086:24cb prog_if=0x8a find_ide_controller: primary channel: compatibility mode find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x1f0 ctrl_base=0x3f4 ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok init_drive: Testing for hda init_drive: Probing for hda init_drive: LBA mode, sectors=6185088 init_drive: Init device params... ok hda: LBA 3166MB: WDC AC33100H init_drive: Testing for hdb init_drive: Testing for hdb open_pc_partition: pc partition magic number not found open_eltorito_image: No El-Torito signature Unrecognized partitioning scheme malloc_diag: alloc: 408 bytes (5 blocks), free: 15968 bytes (1 blocks) malloc_diag: alloc: 328 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16048 bytes (1 blocks)
Now, can boot this fine with the system bios using grub so I don't think my partition is corrupted. Do I need to do a special partition in order to boot with filo? I think my ide controller is configured fine because I can boot off the CD. Just in case it wasn't I attempted to fill registers with values from a working boot with lspci, same error.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Jon