Re: Install of Woody has problems

[Thomas Köllmann <koellmann@gmx.net>]

Ben Collins wrote/schrieb (Tuesday, July 01, 2003):

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:53:07PM -0700, David Demland wrote:
> > Ben,
> > 
> > Thank you for that help. I now have the system installed. There seems to be
> > a problem on the reboot. I get the following message:
> > 
> > Buggy old proms don't allow reading past 1GB from start of disk. Send
> > complains to SMCC.
> > 
> > Then there is a block read error. The system will not boot. What do I have
> > to do to get the system to boot so I can complete the install process?
> 
> At the install, when partitioning the system, make a seperate root
> partition that is on the first 1gig of disk.

I use a setup like this

/dev/sda2              3869036    546880   3125620  15% /
/dev/sda1                14705      6710      7236  49% /boot

on a Sparcstation 4 that would not boot after I at first had
partitioned the whole disk as one partition.

I find having a separate / (and thus probably separate /usr, /var,
/home, and whatnot) a bit messy on small systems. A separate /boot
is nicer according to my taste.

Gruß
 - Thomas