* Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001016 16:00]: > Boot device:/iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],8400000/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],8800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and > args: > SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the disk. > Send complains to SMCC > > Anyway, although I feel quite comfortable in general installing, > administering, and using linux-x86 (Debian, etc.), I'm really new to the > Sun architecture and feel at a loss as to how to make this work.
Veryh simple solution... make a /boot partition at the head of the disk and within the first 1GB of it. It's a known hardware limitation of the sparc32 proms... sparc64 machines do not have this problem. Make that change, and all should work fine (well, in regards to this problem, at least). :)
