Re: Booting a sparc10
Sun, as far as I know, doesn't work their disklabels like x86 machines
do. One thing I've found that you have to have is a type 5 partition
(Whole disk) that encompasses the entire drive. Then create your
partitions. You may be able to boot off a floppy, then add the
partition through fdisk (IIRC, it should be partition 3), and change
type to 5.
Hope that helps.
John
Wakko Warner wrote:
>
> I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it to
> boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label.
>
> The kernel on the cdrom is 2.2.1
> The bootloader is silo.
>
> The disk is a 1.3gb with 2 partitions. First partition is almost the entire
> disk with type 83. the 2nd partition is about 20mb type 82.
>
> ROM is v2.12
> 32mb ram
>
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