Re: Booting a sparc10

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

> > > 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

This is almost exactly what I needed, just one thing, how do I do a
disklabel with fdisk?