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I have a newbie question that I cannot see the answer to in
the archives.
I am a Primary School teacher whose school has inherited a
SPARC IPX running SunOS 4.1.3U. I am new to SPARC's but not to
Linux. I've installed the base package of SLINK 2.1 (kernel 2.0.35) in a
'/boot' partition '/sda1' (28MB). I previously used to fire up the Sun
with the following from the new prompt:
boot /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0
which I believe used to fire up vmunix on /sdb partion
3.
If I now boot using the above the machine fails. The
following works after a fashion:
boot /sbus/esp/sd@0,0
the prom tries three times to find the kernel then shouts
loudly that it cannot get past the 1GB limit (sorry working from memory).
I am then faced with a linux prompt from which if I type
1/vmlinuz-2.0.35 I can then get the system to
boot.
My question: what do I need to change the 'boot-disk'
PROM setting to in order to enable autmagic booting without all this command
line stuff? Setting 'boot-disk' using 'setenv /sbus/esp/sd@0,0; 1/vmlinuz-2.0.35' has not worked.
Help sorely needed and thankfully
appreciated.
Darren
Garside
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