Re: SILO and Create Boot Floppy Fails.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:14:44PM -0500, Andrew Bolyea wrote:
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> I am attempting to resurrect an old SpacStation10...
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> 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.
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> SILO wasn't able to install.
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> ...but no indication of why? Any ideas?
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> so I tried to create a boot floppy.
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> Creation of boot floppy failed. I tried 3 different floppies to no avail.
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> so I checked tty3:
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> formatting floppy with cmd
> 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib: /target/usr/lib"; /target/usr/bin/superformat /dev/fd0 hd
> umount /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
> umount /floppy: Invalid argument
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> So now I can't boot from SILO or a custom boot floppy... does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do next?
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thank you,
> Andrew.
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I had the same problem some months ago with my SS5 and, iirc, it was because
when partitioning the disk, I had deleted the ?"Sun Disk Label"?,
the partition #3 that encompasses the whole disk.
hth
Mike Y.
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