Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Arne Nordmark wrote:
Hello,
I have no luck booting a Sun Blade 100 with 512M memory and PROM
version 4.6 from the Debian install media. I have tried the
Official Woody CD, and BenC's latest netinst.iso and tftpboot.img.
After the message
Booting Linux..
nothing more seems to happen. Other sparcs (Ultra 10, Ultra 1,
SS10, etc) boots fine from the same CDs.
Is the superblock being found on the HD?
When I first installed my Ultra 10 I had the same problem, it was
because I tried to put the swap slice in another area on disk -
once I reformatted it using the Solaris Disks - just to get the
logical and physical layouts right -- the Debian system installed
and rebooted correctly from then on.
What does your fdisk say about the disk layout?
Mine says:
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 17660 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 0 16883 8509032 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 u 16883 17660 391608 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 0 17660 8900640 5 Whole disk
I am using the Official Woody disks I made using the Sparc ISOs.
HTH :]
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