what kind of filesytem is /
if it is reiserfs i don't believe the system will boot from that it needs
to be ext2 ....
craig bartelloni
Lucent Technologies
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> Got some time to try hydrogen-2 again on my old Sparc 2 (4/75)... after
> re-downloading to correct a bad original ISO.
>
> I tried installing about a dozen times (GUI, expert, text, devel, workstation,
> ...); each time all sorts of _random_ errors. It was so bad I suspected my
> CDROM drive... until I decided to try an automatic install... Welllllll....!
> Installed the 1st CD without error; could not install the 2nd because the system
> would not allow me to eject the 1st.
>
> I thought to myself: "finally!!"...
>
> <SIGH> Now the system loads SILO from the HD; but can't find /boot/vmlinuz and
> SILO does not seem to support L1-A or any other interrupt to get into the
> loader...
>
> I have two 1GB HDs:
> sda: /, swap, /home, /usr/local
> sdb: /usr
>
> Any ideas how to get system to boot...?
> Do I need to change any env. vars? boot-device? boot-file?
> Should the boot-device be set to the drive with the root partition for SILO's
> installation?
> Other?
>
> Pierre
>
>
