From 1ea73eea5ecc6a8ed901316049259aee737ee554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:51:38 +0000 Subject: move manual to top-level directory, split out of debian-installer package --- en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml (limited to 'en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml') diff --git a/en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml b/en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b898dd5dd --- /dev/null +++ b/en/partitioning/partition/hppa.xml @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ + + + + + Partitioning for &arch-title; + + +PALO, the HPPA boot loader, requires a partition of type F0 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 — at least +4Mb (I like 8–16MB). 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 +/boot, since that is the directory where the Linux +kernel(s) will be stored. /boot needs to be big enough +to hold whatever kernels you might wish load; 8–16MB is generally +sufficient. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3