Re: IPX and install to large hard drive
Question is, do I even NEED /boot to be seperate? ROM version is 2.6, disk
is a 9.1GB.
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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.
Hmmmm. Need to change the 'partition' option in silo.conf, but then one
would need to mangle the 'vmlinuz' symlink into the root of whatever
partition that is. Ouch, definately not trivial.
>
> Ben
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