Re: Unidentified subject!
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:19:48PM +0100, Daniel van Eeden wrote:
> kfredenb@dc.turkuamk.fi wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10)
> >machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation
> >everyting works fine with SILO. When I press ENTER at the boot: prompt I
> >get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd
> >and noticed that there is only a sparc64 file and not a sparc64.gz file.
> >Accordning to the SILO file the sparc64 is supposed to be used for rescue.
> >What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >thanks Kim
>
> just enter "1/boot/sparc64" to boot /boot/sparc64 from the first
> partition. Afterwards edit your silo.conf.
Except that doesn't work; you need to provide a root filesystem
argument to the kernel. I said "to hell with it" and did a netboot
install instead.
How do you edit silo.conf on a CD? :-)
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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> Should I include quotations after my reply?
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