Question is, do I even NEED /boot to be seperate? ROM version is 2.6, disk is a 9.1GB.
On Sun, 14 May 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > 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. Hmmmm. Need to change the 'partition' option in silo.conf, but then one would need to mangle the 'vmlinuz' symlink into the root of whatever partition that is. Ouch, definately not trivial. > > Ben > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
