silo issues: can't boot off the HD
This is probably just a me problem, not specifically a debian problem.
I have yet to get booting off the hd to work on my potato box; it didn't
work either when it was running slink (before i upgraded).
By default, the PROM env var 'boot-from' defaults to vmunix; I set it to
vmlinuz (didn't work as vmunix either iirc :).
My silo.conf reads:
partition=1
root=/dev/sda1
message=/etc/motd
timeout=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
Tho i've played with several and never gotten anything to work. It's not
helpful that silo doesn't seem to give you any confirmation that it's
actually written an image to the boot sector (a la LILO).
This config looks the same as a working config on my (booting correctly)
RedHat sparc. Unfortunately I can't get to the console (it's remote) so I
can't tell whether I have the prom env vars right. And it was so long
since I set up the RH box I can't remember what I did :) <sigh>
Cheers,
Ari Heitner
DC: 703/5733512 CMU: 412/8622699 www.singularity-software.com
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