Re: IPX and install to large hard drive
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:44:05AM -0700, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
>
> I remember hearing that some of the older Sun machines could only boot
> from the first GB of the disk. Is there any need to have a separate
> partition at the beginning of the disk for /boot with the kernels and silo
> in it?
>
> Installation was smooth. The only problem came when I was asked to choose
> the hostname. ;)
>
> I did make a 16MB partition starting at offset 0 for /boot, and silo
> didn't want to find the kernel image on reboot.
That's because silo has to know the full path of the kernel. If you put
silo on part1 (/) and /boot on part2, then silo needs to look for:
image=2/vmlinuz-2.2.15
Where "2" is the partition number of the current drive and /vmlinuz-2.2.15
is the path to the image relative to the partition it is on (in this case,
it is not in /boot, since that is the partition we are looking on).
I'm not sure there is a sane way to handle this in dbootstrap, but I'll
take a look.
Ben
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