Re: Problems booting Slink
Angel Martin Alganza <ama@goliat.ugr.es> writes:
> On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun
> > disk label? YOu have to do that....
>
> I made my rescue flopy using rawrite2 on a Windows box using the
> resc1440.bin floppy image. Unfortunately I don't have another Linux box
> around here...
> > Sorry the silo documentation in the install manual is weak -- be
> > comforted that the x86/lilo documentation is just as week. I suspect
> > either a bad disklabel or else a misconfigured silo, which you should
> > be able to recover from by putting in the right silo arguments on the
> > prompt.
> Any suggestions on how to do it? I'm really exited whith the idea on
> installing Debian on this box... and am a bit frustrated at the moment for
> not being able to start...
Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot
floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines
before the SILO line?
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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