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FW: SILO Fun (Was: Re: Seems to be working (Was: Re: Debian and IPX))



>	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?


Greetings

Maybe You don't have a partition called "whole disk".
On my system. (SS2 and IBM 4GB):
/dev/hda1 -> /boot (10 MB)
/dev/hda2 -> / (1GB)
/dev/hda3 -> whole disk
/dev/hda5 -> /home (rest)
Something like this.

Maybe You need to have this first partition (boot) at start of disk,
because Silo can't reach the kernel after 1024 cylinder on disk.

Maybe I'm wrong ;-)

Have fun!

Bogusław Borgosz




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