Duncan THOMSON wrote: > > i tried the february disks a while ago, and just today got a chance to try > the latest ones... but still no joy. > > i'm running on a floppy-less ELC with two external SCSI drives. > > i appear to have succeeded the install procedure with both the RARP/TFTP and > RARP/TFTP/NFS methods, install the kernel/drivers/base system ok, and run > silo. however, when i reboot, silo give me: > > SILO > Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error) > > Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf > (and further messages about booting from the command line, which i've tried > to follow to no avail.) > > any pointers on what i need to do? i'm away next week, but i'll have time > to try again in the week after that > > cheers, and thanks for all the work to get it *so* close...
Did you checked if your /etc/silo.conf exists on the target disk ? Boot off network with the install procedure, then mount an already initialized partition. It is now mounted on /target (or mount it by hand from a shell). If no silo.conf exists, create it with something like that: partition=1 root=/dev/sda1 timeout=100 image=/linux label=linux read-only Then run /target/sbin/silo -r /target BTW, is your first partition starting at cylinder 0 ? I guess silo suppose so, and it needs to be an ext2 partition (no swap here, otherwise it will erase the partition sector). Hope this helps you. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
