Daniel Freedman wrote: > 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).
The default SCSI id that Suns such as the Sparc 5 use for booting is id 3. The machine looks on that disk first unless you tell it otherwise. > 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". In /etc/fstab you can find the mountpoint for the CD, probably /mnt/cdrom, so try `mount /mnt/cdrom`. > 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?). >From the 'ok' prompt (you can get there by typing 'halt' on the SILO prompt, type 'setenv boot-device disk1 disk net'. This way your machine will first try to boot from disk1, then disk and finally net. When you're in the mood, you might want to re-install on the disk with target 3. This will probably bring back memories :-) Pieter
