Re: Installation problems onto Ultra1 of Debian/Woody -- More Info
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:47:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Unless it is v1+ swap partition.
Ah, didn't know that. Fortunately all new Debian sparc installs are v1+.
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