Re: FW: SILO

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Jennie:

On Thursday 16 September 2010 16:09:09 Jennie Kingsland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have copied the Debian 5.0.6 ISO and began installing this to a SPARC
> V240 server.
>
> However almost at the end of the install and an error occurs 'The Silo
> package failed to install into /target, installing SILO as a boot loader
> is a required step'
>
> Forums suggest that the first partition must be an ext2 or ext3 and it
> should be mounted as /boot.
>
> The partitioned disks on the server currently look like this;
>
> #1 98.7MB F EXT3 /BOOT
> #2 34.7GB F EXT3 /
> #4 1.6GB F SWAP SWAP
>
> Can you suggest how to resolve this issue? Is it something with my
> partitioned disks that needs to be changed?

Three hints:
1) Re-check the MD5 sum of your downloaded CD (there may be some error 
affecting that package).
2) Check caps:   your boot partition's mount point should be '/boot' instead 
of '/BOOT'.
3) Make sure there's no BIOS/EFI param making your first disk's boot 
sector 'read only'.

Cheers.