Hi Ben (et al),
Thanks for all your help. Works like a treat :)
Cheers,
Gords...
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins [mailto:bcollins@debian.org]
Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2001 2:36 AM
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 03:50:29PM +1100, Gordon Cormack wrote:
> 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"
No, not there. Read the message that SILO prompts you with. You'll need
to wait for the SILO prompt and do:
SILO: linux root=/dev/hdb
That should do it.
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