Hi everyone, Thanks for all the advice so far. I've made some progress but I'm still not all the way there. Now that I partition the Sparc 5 with a 500 Meg "/", 1GB "/usr" and 512Meg swap, I'm able to get the bootup during installation to have SILO find the vmlinuz and continue the installation procedure (actually, its not hands-free as it initially boots with the dreaded error: 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 but then I type "boot disk1" at the "ok" prompt, SILO comes up and finds vmlinuz and it continues).
However, just before starting installation of all the packages, it asks for the media on which they're available. I specify the CD-ROM (Toshiba 4x SCSI internal bootable that came with Sparc 5), but the routine is unable to find my CD-ROM automatically. It asks for me to specify the cd-rom device (I forget the exact message), so I try both "/cdrom" and "/dev/cdrom", but these fail with the error "No block device found". I can't install over the net because the academic environment I'm in won't give me an IP drop for this machine. I'm thinking maybe I have to install a loadable SCSI module for the kernel to be able to find the CD-ROM, but the boot procedure is able to speak to the SCSI hard drive and recognizes the CD-ROM on bootup (to speak nothing of installing the base package from it), so I'm not sure if this is it. Further suggestions would be very much appreciated (also on how to have the initial power-on boot go directly to the appropriate disk1 rather than giving me the error message. Must I tweak silo.conf?). Thanks so much and take care, Daniel On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > Also try "ls" at the silo prompt and see if it's there. More than likely > this is caused by boot being on a seperate partition. Might want to redo > that installation without the extra /boot (try a 500Meg "/", 1G "/usr" and > 512Meg swap). >
