| [>description] |
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| palo is the installation and management tool for the parisc |
| bootloader, called iplboot. The size required for the iplboot binary |
| is 256kb. Older MS-DOS label disks begin the first partition at |
| sector 63 and there is no room for iplboot within the disk label, so |
| you must create a palo partition of type F0 to hold iplboot. If your |
| disk was formatted more recently it should have a newer MS-DOS label |
| where the first partition begins at sector 2048 meaning there is room |
| for iplboot within the disk label and a palo (F0) partition is not |
| required. |
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| If you have a palo partition (type F0), it must occur within the first |
| 2GB of the beginning of the disk. If you choose to have a palo |
| partition, you may store both the kernel and the initrd in this |
| partition, meaning you have to update it every time you update the |
| kernel, or you may choose to have a /boot partition, which must be |
| formatted as an ext2/3/4 filesystem, from which palo will load |
| kernels. This /boot partition also must be within the first 2GB of |
| the beginning of the disk. If you have no palo partition, and palo is |
| installed inside the disk label, you must have a /boot partition |
| because the disk label is still too small to contain a kernel and a |
| ramdisk. |
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| Palo allows you to specify a kernel command line, which is stored in |
| the firstboot partition. The format should be kernel first followed |
| by an optional initrd= and then the rest of the kernel parameters. |
| The format of the kernel and initial ramdisk files is <partition |
| number>/<path to file>. It is recommended, but not required, that |
| both the kernel and the initial ramdisk be in the root directory of |
| the filesystem. |
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| [examples] |
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| Create a Bootable disk on sda for the first time by installing palo |
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| $ palo -c "1/vmlinux initrd=1/initrd.img" -I /dev/sda |
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| Update the bootloader command line without re-installing it |
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| $ palo -c "1/vmlinux.new initrd=1/initrd.img.new" -U /dev/sda |
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| Format the palo partition as ext4 and install iplboot within that |
| partition using ext4 badblocks [requires a palo (type F0) partition]: |
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| $ palo palo -c "1/vmlinux initrd=1/initrd.img" --format-as=4 -I /dev/sda |
