Re: Booting a sparc10

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

> wakko@animx.eu.org said:
> > I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on.  I can't get it
> > to boot off the hard drive.  It always complains about no disk label. 
> 
> Sounds like you've make an fdisk disklabel on it, the sparc prom needs
> to see a sun disklabel (known as a bsd disklabel in fdisk).

I agree, but isn't it "Sun disk label"? At least that is what I
have on my SS20:

huilu:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 14 heads, 72 sectors, 2036 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            0        0     1400   705600   83  Linux native
/dev/sda2  u      1401     1401     1441    20160   83  Linux native
/dev/sda3            0        0     2036  1026144    5  Whole disk
/dev/sda4  u      1442     1442     2036   299376   82  Linux swap
huilu:~# grep DISKLABEL /usr/src/linux-2.2.7/.config 
# CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set
CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL=y
# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set

CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL is defined as 
"SMD disklabel (Sun partition tables) support" in
linux/Documentation/Configure.help

> /Anders

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland