Re: /boot nonexistant on sun4cdm install disk set
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:28:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 06:08:02PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Try the newer 3 August versions, I think.
> >
> > If that fails, please submit a bug against boot-floppies.
>
> No, there should be no /boot in the root.bin. The /boot that silo uses is
> /target/boot. Silo us run as "silo -r /target" so that it will chroot to
> the new installed filesystem. Try running that and see if there is an
> error. I'm wondering what happened to make you think it failed. Was there
> an error message? If so, what was it?
Ok.. /boot shouldn't exist. Two problems still stand with the latest boot-
floppies.
1. DHCP doesn't work correctly, all the information is recieved, the
interface goes up, the route's are correct, but no DNS. No matter what
I do. I checked /etc/resolv.conf, nothing there. The information is in
/tmp/resolv.conf but even if I manually set up the device afterward it doesn't
work. It works fine if I set it up manually the first time with the same info
as it recieves from the DHCP server.
2. SILO still does not work. I think it may have to do with the way I was
partitioning the drive. It would not work without a Whole Disk partition
though that isn't mentioned in the documentation. Now it claims to be successfull
but can't create a boot floppy and when I reboot is says it can't read /vmlinuz.
My original partition scheme was this.
1 ext2 /boot
2 swap LinuxSwap
3 ext2 /
I changed it to this:
1 Boot ???
2 swap LinuxSwap
3 Sun Whole Disk
4 ext2 /boot
5 ext2 /
Is there something I'm missing in the install guide....
William Cordis
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