Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

[Wilson Yau <wilson@coms.com>]

You guess what?

Debian was installed on /dev/sda1, but it was 'boot cdrom' that
worked....bizarre.


Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote:
> > Hi! need your help again!
> >
> > Floppy installation of Debian was almost successfully finished, but the
> > SUN box was not able to boot directly from the hard disk to continue the
> > second part of installation.
> >
> > I have consulted the docs "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For SPARC"
> > and "OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual" and tried commands like
> > 'boot disk', 'boot disk1', 'boot disk1:a', etc, but they all not worked
> > for me 8-(
> 
> Do you remember the device name you used under the installation (something
> like /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1) for the root filesystem? If so, do this:
> 
> ok> boot floppy root=/dev/sda1
> 
> Using the device you used in the installation.
> 
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