Re: Boot partitions
> 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:
This is where the problem lies. Silo looks for the image on the boot
partition (very unlike a PC, in which lilo references an disk block as
opposed to being able to read the filesystem like silo can).
You can either boot with init=/bin/bash and edit /etc/silo.conf manually,
or do an install with just one partition (no need to seperate partitions
if you don't have to).
I also suggest going with a potato install as opposed to slink.
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