Handbook:HPPA/Blocks/Bootloader

Installing PALO
On the PA-RISC platform, the boot loader is called. First merge this bootloader to the system:

The configuration file will be found at. Below is a sample configuration:

The first line tells the location of the kernel and which boot parameters it must use. The string  means the kernel named /kernel- resides on the second partition. Beware, the path to the kernel is relative to the boot partition, not to the root partition.

The second line indicates which recovery kernel to use. If it is the first install and there is no recovery kernel (yet), please comment this out. The third line indicates on which disk will reside.

To format the disk, we must run with certain arguments. This example uses ext4 for the first partition.

When configuration is done, simply run the command: