Re: installation difficulties
Joshua,
Thanks for the suggestions, but I still haven't been able to make it work.
I now partition my 2.1 GB drive as follows:
/dev/sda1: 50 MB mounted as /boot
/dev/sda2: ~1500 MB mounted as /
/dev/sda3: special Sun Disk Image (type 5)
/dev/sda4: 512 MB Linux Swap (machine has 256 MB RAM)
When I reboot during installation, I get the same message that:
Boot device:/iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0 File and
args:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
Now, if I type "boot disk1", I get a different message than before. I
used to get:
Boot device:/iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0 File and
args:
SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the
disk.
Send complains to SMCC
Read error on block 294916
Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read)
Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf
No config file loaded, you can boot just from this command line.
Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt
Now, I get:
Rebooting with command: disk1
Boot device:/iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0 File and
args:
SILO boot: < I type: "linux" >
Cannot find /vmlinuz (Unknown ext2 error)
Image not found.... try again
So, it looks a little bit better, but I'm still not making much progress
as I can't get beyond this. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with
the boot process looking for vmlinuz in / which is then symlinked to
vmlinuz-2.2.17-sun4cdm in /boot. But maybe there's the problem again that
the vmlinuz in / that the boot process is looking for is in a partition
that's larger than a 1 GB (even though /boot is only 50 MB and is /sda1).
Sorta confused here....
Thanks everyone for all the help. I appreciate any more suggestions.
Thanks so much,
Daniel
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> * Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu> [001016 16:00]:
> > Boot device:/iommu/sbus/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0 File and
> > args:
> > SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the disk.
> > Send complains to SMCC
> >
> > Anyway, although I feel quite comfortable in general installing,
> > administering, and using linux-x86 (Debian, etc.), I'm really new to the
> > Sun architecture and feel at a loss as to how to make this work.
>
> Veryh simple solution... make a /boot partition at the head of the disk
> and within the first 1GB of it. It's a known hardware limitation of
> the sparc32 proms... sparc64 machines do not have this problem.
>
> Make that change, and all should work fine (well, in regards to this
> problem, at least). :)
>
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