Re: new bootdisks available

[Jeffrey Ebert <ebert@sonicsinc.com>]

Eric Delaunay wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Ebert wrote:
> > Thanks for the bootdisks, Eric.
> >
> > I was able to boot with the new disks yesterday on my SS2, but only when
> > I entered "/fd;/linux" at the boot prompt. If I hit ENTER, then it
> > reported a read error on block 65 (or byte 65, I can't remember). This
> > must be a SILO problem with certain hardware/PROM combinations.
> 
> Happy to see it works :-))
> BTW, can you explain me the syntax a bit further ?  I don't understand the
> first part: /fd;
> Is this working on all sparcs ? (then I could put it the default for silo)
> 

IIRC, the full syntax is [<openprom path>;][<partition number>]<path to
kernel>. If you type help at the SILO prompt you will get a brief
explanation of this. /fd is a short path to the floppy disk that
openprom understands. There are longer paths as well, but this is sort
of like a symlink. I didn't check the archives, but I think someone else
posted this solution for the old bootdisks. Maybe that individual can
step forward and give a better answer?

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