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.