Re: SILO wasn't able to install
Aha. My disk is 4.3G, and I just made one large root partition for it.
That must be the problem.
I normally do make a small boot partition, but I had some problems when
I did this with the Sparc. For one thing, in the install fdisk I
couldn't find an option to toggle the bootable flag, which I normally do
for my boot partition. Does this not apply in the Debian Sparc install
or what?
Also, after I got the drive partitioned when I tried creating a separate
partition for boot, I got a lot of errors about the system not knowing
where my root partition was supposed to be. Creating just one big
partition seemed to make that problem go away.
/Owen
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:04, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
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> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Owen B. Mehegan wrote:
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> > I just finished the grueling task of installing Debian on a Sparc IPX over
> > the wire, using a combination of tftp, nfs, and http.
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> > Now that the install is done, I choose "make system bootable." Debian tries
> > to install SILO, and fails to do so. Why would this happen?
>
> What size is your hard disk? Some sparc PROMs can't boot if the kernel
> is beyond the 1 Gig mark (the rest of the 32-bit sparcs have the same
> problem at 2 Gig). SILO enforces the 1 Gig limit and will fail if your
> root partition is beyond 1 Gig. The solution is to make a separate /boot
> partition for holding your kernels (only needs to be 5-10 meg).
>
> The frustrating part was all the installer tells you is that it failed,
> not why. And even when I spawned a shell, it took me a while for it to tell
> me what was wrong...
>
> --Kurt
>
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