Re: new SPARCstation 10
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:38:17PM +0000, edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk wrote:
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.lots of people have problems with booting from hard disc. usually it's
.because of the partition table not conforming to certain strict, but
.unwritten rules. (or maybe they are included in the installation
.manual now. first partition must start on cylinder 0, for example.)
the second paragraph of the README document in /usr/doc/silo
clued me in as to how to update the Sun eprom with
the "open boot prom" format boot-disk parameters.
it would be helpful and make sense if this info, or
some permutation thereof, were in the install docs.
muggles
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