Joshua, Thanks for the suggestions, but I still haven't been able to make it work. I now partition my 2.1 GB drive as follows:
/dev/sda1: 50 MB mounted as /boot /dev/sda2: ~1500 MB mounted as / /dev/sda3: special Sun Disk Image (type 5) /dev/sda4: 512 MB Linux Swap (machine has 256 MB RAM) When I reboot during installation, I get the same message that: Boot device:/iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],8400000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],8800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: Bad magic number in disk label Can't open disk label package Can't open boot device Now, if I type "boot disk1", I get a different message than before. I used to get: 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 Read error on block 294916 Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf No config file loaded, you can boot just from this command line. Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt Now, I get: Rebooting with command: disk1 Boot device:/iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],8400000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],8800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: SILO boot: < I type: "linux" > Cannot find /vmlinuz (Unknown ext2 error) Image not found.... try again So, it looks a little bit better, but I'm still not making much progress as I can't get beyond this. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the boot process looking for vmlinuz in / which is then symlinked to vmlinuz-2.2.17-sun4cdm in /boot. But maybe there's the problem again that the vmlinuz in / that the boot process is looking for is in a partition that's larger than a 1 GB (even though /boot is only 50 MB and is /sda1). Sorta confused here.... Thanks everyone for all the help. I appreciate any more suggestions. Thanks so much, Daniel On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote: > * 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). :) >
