Re: openprom> whereis silo\n
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:07:36PM -0400, Chad Miller wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I got a spiffy E450 recently and am trying to use Potato on it. I can
> install without problem (at openprom, 'boot cdrom'). It has several
> disks, and on the first I delete all partitions (including the ``Whole
> disk'') and remake them (Whole disk, root, swap). I run the install
> gauntlet, and I follow the step that runs 'silo' at the end.
>
> Upon rebooting (my openprom 'boot-device' variable is set to 'disk'), the
> previous SunOS installation begins to boot! I've deleted all other
> disks' partitions and ``Whole disk'' partitions (and created bare disks
> with one type-83 partition), and even 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda' (from
> SunOS -- grrr). I just tried at openprom 'boot disk0' and it boots SunOS.
>
> I don't want SunOS. SunOS is ugly. SunOS makes me itch.
>
> What must one do to boot SILO? Ideas?
What is the SCSI ID of the Linux disk? Sounds like you are trying to boot
one that isn't SCSI ID 3 (the default that SPARC tries to boot). You'll
need to specify something like "boot disk2" or something. Then in linux,
edit /etc/silo.conf to put the boot block on the correct disk. The reason
it is done this way is to prevent from breaking installs where
Solaris/SunOS is on one disk, and Linux is on another (common setup).
Ben
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