Re: SILO Fun (Was: Re: Seems to be working (Was: Re: Debian and IPX))
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
> At 22:04 -0500 11/28/03, 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?
>
> You mean this:
>
> /dev/sda
> /dev/sda1 1 102 49M ext3 /boot
> /dev/sda2 103 899 382M ext3 /
> /dev/sda4 900 6175 2534M ext3 /usr
> /dev/sda5 6176 8104 926M ext3 /home
> /dev/sda6 8105 8637 256M ext3 /var
> /dev/sda7 8638 9006 177M swap
You do have a "Whole Disk" partition on sda3, right?
If you are doing the /boot seperate, it really isn't supported
automatically unless you use the images I posted about. Otherwise,
you'll need to do this at a prompt before rebooting the install:
cd /target
mv etc/silo.conf boot/
ln -s . boot/etc
ln -s . boot/boot
ln -s ../boot/silo.conf etc/silo.conf
cd /
silo -r /target -f
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