RE: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close
(Chances of success 0.01% considered my experience)...
Easy to try , according to your output :
(from SILO boot): /sbus/esp/sd@1,0;1/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4
It sounds like it cannot find / (/etc under / filesystem in your case).
Cheers
Raoul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen B. Mehegan [mailto:owen@nerdnetworks.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: Solarisexpert.com; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close
>
>
> Yes, it's a single 4.3G drive. There's a floppy too, but no other
> drives of
> any kind.
>
> /Owen
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Solarisexpert.com [mailto:submissions@solarisexpert.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:33 AM
> > To: Owen B. Mehegan; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: RE: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close
> >
> >
> > Is this the only drive you have on this system ?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Owen B. Mehegan [mailto:owen@nerdnetworks.org]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:30 AM
> > > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close
> > >
> > >
> > > I finally got Debian installed on my IPX, with SILO included so I
> > > don't have
> > > to use a boot floppy. Here are two issues that (I think) are the
> > > only things
> > > keeping me from getting the system to boot Debian.
> > >
> > > 1. When I start up and get to the Openboot prompt, I type "b"
> > to boot, and
> > > get the error "SCSI device 3,0 is not responding. Can't open
> > boot device."
> > > This is because the SCSI ID of my hard drive is 1. If I go to
> > new command
> > > mode and do "boot /sbus/esp/sd@1,0" SILO starts to load, but...
> > >
> > > 2. The next thing I see is "SILO," followed by the following errors:
> > >
> > > "Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the
> > disk. Send
> > > complaints to SMCC
> > >
> > > Read error on block 786436 (tried 4096, got -1)
> > >
> > > Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)
> > >
> > > 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
> > > E.g. /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0;4/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4
> > > or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of
> > boot disk)"
> > >
> > >
> > > Whaaaaa? Most of this stuff doesn't make much sense to me,
> > probably due to
> > > my complete lack of experience with Sun hardware. For
> reference, my boot
> > > drive has four partitions. 1 is /boot, 2 is swap, 3 is "whole
> > disk," and 4
> > > is / (root). I've tried a few different commands to get the
> > > system to boot,
> > > without luck so far. What did I do wrong?
> > >
> > > /Owen
> > >
> > >
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