Re: Buggy old PROMs
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Pierre Roussel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed potato from scratch. When I reboot my SS10, I have the
> following message :
>
> "SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the
> disk.
> (...)
> Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in short read)"
>
> Does anyone know what is it ?
Where is the partition with /etc/silo.conf and kernel located on the disk?
If it crosses the magic boundary 1GB from start of the disk or is above it,
then you really cannot do that with old PROMs.
Installer should make sure the /boot partition or / if no /boot partition is
present is located completely below 1GB.
Only PROM in Ultra boxes is able to read from anywhere on the disk...
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj
Linux version 2.3.99-pre2 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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