After experimenting and researching, including accepting the defaults for the drive when I did the custom Sun label, I decided my previously problem disk errors could be avoided as long as I was under the actual capacity of the drive after formatting it.
So I go and put in my 512M of RAM, leave in the two processors and decided to reinstall from scratch. The 9GB drive - misformatted with the defaults thinks itself to be about 180M - but it does have a minimal and bootable (after I read the Sparc 10 manual to figure out the prom command I needed was "boot disk3") linux partition. However, for some reason, while I can boot off the tiny partition, I now choke when I try to boot from the CD drive. I get to the Welcome message and can give the initial boot command. After I hit the enter key it starts off with an initrd extends beyond end of memory - but it seems to progress OK. it goes on for a while and dies with a kenel panic apparently triggered by a UFS_read_super bad Magic Number 0x00000000 on dev 1/0 Now I have to be able to read access the CD to get this far. And the kernel installed on the misformatted disk drive isn't complaining when I boot that kernel. I thought it might be something with memory so I tried adding mem=512K as a boot parameter. That didn't help. If I can't boot from the CD - I'm stuck because I need to reformat the hard drive. How do I tell what I'm missing, here. The manual says that it should install fine with two processors in the machine even though it will only use one until I rebuild the kernel. I didn't have any problems with less memory - whats causing the problem? Any advice will be appreciated. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
