Re: SILO and Create Boot Floppy Fails.
ive had that problem on several sparc systems, even with the /dev/hd[x]3
sun disk label
what has seemed to help with me, on those systems where SILO will not
install, is to
create a small /boot partition as hd[x]1. then SILO has installed for
me.
as for the boot floppy, ive never been able to successfully create a
boot floppy
during installation of debian on sparc.
hope that is helpful ...
kev.
Michael A Yehle wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:14:44PM -0500, Andrew Bolyea wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > so I tried to create a boot floppy.
> >
> > Creation of boot floppy failed. I tried 3 different floppies to no avail.
> >
> > so I checked tty3:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Andrew.
> >
>
> 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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