Re: SILO and Create Boot Floppy Fails.
Thank you Nathan for your help.
I have a small /boot partition (/dev/sda1) consisting of the
first 10M of sda.
/boot /dev/sda1
/usr /dev/sda2
/ /dev/sdb1
swap /dev/sdb2
Currently silo.conf is pointing to root=/dev/sdb1
Which is correct. And there is link to vmlinuz in that dir.
Should I change it to the /boot partition?
Doesn't something need to be written to the MBR inorder
for the system to boot using SILO?
Do I need to change something in OpenBoot?
Right now everytime I boot the machine it puts me to the
ok> prompt. I belive this is OpenBoot?
Then I insert the Debian Rescue Floppy and boot from it.
ok> boot floppy
Then I use the boot option...
boot: linux root=/dev/sdb1
Which correctly boots the machine (I believe using the kernel
on the hard dirve, not the floppy?)
Sorry for all the questions... I am familiar with Debian on i386.
This is my first time installing Debian on a sparc.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Andrew.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:28 pm
Subject: Re: SILO and Create Boot Floppy Fails.
> Just a guess; you made the root partition too large. I can't remember
> the exact number but the kernel has to be within the first N cylinders
> of the drive, where N is a number like 1024. This is, IIRC, only a
> problem with PROMs on 32-bit sparcs. I'm sure someone will
> correct me
> :-) I just sepnt five minutes looking for the doc I got this info
> from , but no joy. I solved the problem by making the first partition
> small and mounting it as / . You can also mount it as /boot if you
> are willing to play around with your silo.conf.
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