Re: SILO and Create Boot Floppy Fails.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:37:21PM -0500, Andrew Bolyea wrote:
[ one post is enough, thanks. Please wrap your lines; a right margin
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> I am attempting to resurrect an old SpacStation10...
>
> I booted the machine using a rescue floppy, and proceeded with at net
> install of the Debian base system. Everything seemed to work perfectly
> right up until the last step.
>
> SILO wasn't able to install.
>
> ...but no indication of why? Any ideas?
Just a guess; you made the root partition too large. I can't remember
the exact number but the kernel has to be within the first N cylinders
of the drive, where N is a number like 1024. This is, IIRC, only a
problem with PROMs on 32-bit sparcs. I'm sure someone will correct me
:-) I just sepnt five minutes looking for the doc I got this info
from , but no joy. I solved the problem by making the first partition
small and mounting it as / . You can also mount it as /boot if you
are willing to play around with your silo.conf.
> so I tried to create a boot floppy.
>
> Creation of boot floppy failed. I tried 3 different floppies to no avail.
I find floppies on sparc to be a cruel joke.
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