Hey Ben (you must be in oz?),
Yes the cdrom is IDE...
hda: primary master (1st hard disk)
hdb: primary slave (cdrom)
hdc: secondary master: (2nd hard disk)
I've tried doing "boot cdrom root=/dev/hdb"
but getting the same errors...
???
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins [mailto:bcollins@debian.org]
Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 2:49 PM
To: Gordon Cormack
Cc: 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: 1st time installation on a Sun Sparc Ultra 10...
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:10:24PM +1100, Gordon Cormack wrote:
> Hey Ben / Craige,
>
> Yes I burnt it myself using Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum (Roxio) using the
> "record CD from HD image"
Well the reason I asked if you "created" (as in from the debian-cd
tools) was because creating Debian/SPARC cd's requires some finesse.
Since you downloaded these images from a know good source, then the
problem lies elsewhere.
What is the setup of this system? I presume it is IDE (for the cdrom)?
If so, which connection is the cdrom on (primary/secondary
master/slave)? The install CD assumes /dev/hdc (secondary/master). If
it's anything else you'll need to supply root=/dev/hdb or root=/dev/hdd,
depending. Don't supply a partition number, since it isn't partioned.
Ben
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