SparcStation 20 and SILO

[Tim Spriggs <tims@fugazi.engr.arizona.edu>]

Hello,

	I have been having some serious issues trying to get a
SparcStation 20 to boot. In order to install debian I had to net-boot the
machine since it did not like the cd-rom for some reason.

	The installation process has had problems at the very end when
"Making the system bootable" and has come up with a non-specific failure.
Other times it succeeds and simply wants to reboot.

	Either way, when I try and boot the machine from the drive I just
installed debian on, it gives me an error in the open boot prom:

	"The file just loaded does not appear to be executable."

	I have looked all over the place online and found only one
reference to someone who changed a parameter in /etc/silo.conf which I
tried with no success.

Any help or even suggestions as to how to get this thing moving would be
highly appreciated.

Thank you,

-Tim

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