Re: SILO problems on an E450
Speaking of SILO... Can SILO boot from a Raid 1 root drive like lilo
can?
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:28, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
> > [ Please CC me on all replies ]
> >
> > I'm currently trying to install Debian on a Sun Enterprise 450 with a
> > SCSI drive. OpenBSD's bootloader has worked fine in the past, but when
> > trying to install silo, it seems that nothing ever gets written onto the
> > disk; when booting, OpenBoot can't recognize any valid boot loader on
> > the drive. I've tried versions of silo all the way up to 1.3.0, and
> > not a single one of them ever prints an error; strace seems to show that
> > silo is writing stuff to the disk, but booting is never successful. The
> > disk can be written to perfectly fine, and can be mounted from the
> > a SPARC netinst CD shell.
> >
> > Any suggestions? I'm really stumped on this and I've tried everything I
> > could think of.
>
> Are you sure that OBP is attempting to boot from the correct disk?
>
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