On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:04:59PM +0000, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> dear list...
> 
> it seems my partitioning scheme was a little naive and having compiled a new 
> kernel image it turns out to be significantly bigger than the last one and the 
> two wont fit on the root partition.
> 
> i dont want to risk removing my old (working) kernel in case the new one 
> doesnt boot so what do i do? is there a way of booting from a different 
> partition? is it arch specific (this is a sun classic). do i have to 
> repartition and reinstall?

If I remember properly you can boot from a different partiton at prom level:
boot sd(0,4,1) would be scsi controller 0, scsi ID 4, partition 1 ( = b)

But you have to installboot this partition before.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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