Re: SILO Fun (Was: Re: Seems to be working (Was: Re: Debian and IPX))
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 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.
Not sure what you are refering to. I've never run into that problem, nor
heard of it.
I suspect he has a seperate /boot partition, which will only work if you
are using my install images on http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc.
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