On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:41, Chris Newport wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote: > >> 3.5.1 mentions the 1GB magic boundary -- silo will sometimes refuse > >> to boot the kernel, if it is physically located beyond the 1GB from > >> the start of the disk. I believe, however that this applies only to > >> sparc32 machines, is that correct? > > Early Sparc32 machines assume an early disk VTOC limitation. The root > filesystem must be on the first slice and no slice should exceed 2Gb. > This is an OBP issue. The only cure is to put the root (including > /boot) filesystem on the first slice and limit its size to 1024Mb. > AFAIK this only affects Sun4C machines which may not work with 2.6 > kernels anyway. That means that the two sentences that cover that issue can be deleted. > >> 5.1.4: How relevant is Sun NVRAM FAQ linked from this section for > >> us? > > Most older machines will have expired NVRAM batteries which should be > fixed using this FAQ before attempting to install an operating system. > Probably the most frequent problem with older machines. OK. Let's leave that in then. Thanks for the info Chris. Cheers, FJP
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