Moe wrote: > I installed Debian 2.1r4 on my sparc 1+. The > installation is fine but I cant boot off the hdd, > instead I boot of the cdrom then issue > "boot: linux root=/dev/sda1" then I am able to boot > ok. > Any ideas? I think that 'silo' is not configured > correctly because I cant boot off the hdd.
silo is probably fine. At the Sparc boot prompt you need to use the setenv command: setenv boot-device disk1:1 At least if you're having the same problem that I was having... You can read the debian-sparc thread on this at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0001/threads.html#00076 Fraser
