Re: SILO Fun (Was: Re: Seems to be working (Was: Re: Debian and IPX))

[Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
>
> > 	I just finished installing debian in my IPX.  Well, almost. 
> > When it is the time to make the disk bootable, this is the message I 
> > am getting:
> >
> > "SILO wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your 
> > system if you create a boot floppy, but it won't be able to boot 
> > without a floppy."
> >
> > What could be causing that and what can I do?
>
>
> Can you show me the partition map from fdisk? Also, switching to the
> second console (ALT+F2) will show error messages more verbosely.

Mauricio,

try to repeartition the disk, and put /boot on the first partition. Make 
sure that /boot is small enough not to confuse SILO. I made the mistake 
here [1] to use a single partition for the whole disk, and SILO didn't 
like that.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200311/msg00052.html