Re: Installation problems onto Ultra1 of Debian/Woody -- More Info
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:04:25PM -0700, Tim Ellis wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:43:24 -0400
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > > 2. boot to the "ok" prom and do "boot disk:1" -- this is different
> > > than Kevin's "boot disk1:1" etc.
> >
> > This was actually the step you needed.
>
> Okay, then.
>
> I only know this via hearsay, but I've been told on normal Sun
> installations you never make a partition start at 0, because Sun stores
> the partition table there. I notice there are no such warnings about
> installing Debian on SPARC.
>
> Is this an urban myth?
Somewhat. You never want to put a Linux swap partition on sector zero.
Normal partitions are just fine.
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