On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:44:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I remember hearing that some of the older Sun machines could only boot > from the first GB of the disk. Is there any need to have a separate > partition at the beginning of the disk for /boot with the kernels and silo > in it? > > Installation was smooth. The only problem came when I was asked to choose > the hostname. ;) > > I did make a 16MB partition starting at offset 0 for /boot, and silo > didn't want to find the kernel image on reboot.
That's because silo has to know the full path of the kernel. If you put silo on part1 (/) and /boot on part2, then silo needs to look for: image=2/vmlinuz-2.2.15 Where "2" is the partition number of the current drive and /vmlinuz-2.2.15 is the path to the image relative to the partition it is on (in this case, it is not in /boot, since that is the partition we are looking on). I'm not sure there is a sane way to handle this in dbootstrap, but I'll take a look. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
