Re: SILO wasn't able to install
> couldn't find an option to toggle the bootable flag, which I normally do
The bootable flag is DOS-partition-table perversion :-) Sun disklabels
don't have it. (There is a *mountable* flag, to distinguish the
"whole disk" partition from something useful, but with a freshly
created label (rather than a "stuff linux over this SunOS install"
label) you don't need it or care about it. Oh, actually, it seems you
can use it on the swap partition. You don't actually need it though.)
Also, while silo doesn't kno about mount points, you can just say 3/
instead of / to refer to sda3.
Example:
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8667 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 100 102400 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 100 356 262144 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 0 8667 8875008 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 u 356 612 262144 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda5 612 2660 2097152 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 2660 3684 1048576 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 3684 8667 5102592 83 Linux native
"c" toggles the mountable flag. And a slightly edited df to show how
that corresponds to reality:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 99150 2473 91557 3% /boot
/dev/sda2 253871 1540 239224 1% /var/cache/openafs
3: whole disk
4: swap
/dev/sda5 2064208 1241696 717656 64% /
/dev/sda6 1032088 32828 946832 4% /home
/dev/sda7 5022344 42004 4725212 1% /vicepa
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