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authorJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2005-10-07 19:51:38 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2005-10-07 19:51:38 +0000
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+ <sect2 arch="hppa"><title>Partitioning for &arch-title;</title>
+<para>
+
+PALO, the HPPA boot loader, requires a partition of type <quote>F0</quote> somewhere
+in the first 2GB. This is where the boot loader and an optional kernel
+and RAMdisk will be stored, so make it big enough for that &mdash; at least
+4Mb (I like 8&ndash;16MB). An additional requirement of the firmware is that
+the Linux kernel must reside within the first 2GB of the disk. This
+is typically achieved by making the root ext2 partition fit entirely
+within the first 2GB of the disk. Alternatively you can create a small
+ext2 partition near the start of the disk and mount that on
+<filename>/boot</filename>, since that is the directory where the Linux
+kernel(s) will be stored. <filename>/boot</filename> needs to be big enough
+to hold whatever kernels you might wish load; 8&ndash;16MB is generally
+sufficient.
+
+</para>
+ </sect2>