Angel Martin Alganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun > > disk label? YOu have to do that.... > > I made my rescue flopy using rawrite2 on a Windows box using the > resc1440.bin floppy image. Unfortunately I don't have another Linux box > around here...
> > Sorry the silo documentation in the install manual is weak -- be > > comforted that the x86/lilo documentation is just as week. I suspect > > either a bad disklabel or else a misconfigured silo, which you should > > be able to recover from by putting in the right silo arguments on the > > prompt. > Any suggestions on how to do it? I'm really exited whith the idea on > installing Debian on this box... and am a bit frustrated at the moment for > not being able to start... Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines before the SILO line? Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

