I also have a Sparcstation IPC, but can't seem to get it to boot from hard disk.
I'm using Debian 2.2.18pre21. It will boot from a modified rescue floppy and then use the hard disk just fine. When I try booting from the PROM prompt to the HD I keep getting a "SCSI device is not responding" error. If I set the boot-from PROM environment variable to fd(), with the modified boot floppy in the drive, it comes up and then uses the HD and not the floppy. The HD is SCSI TARGET ID 4 unit 0 to the hardware, and setup as /dev/sda1 to linux. There are no other drives and I only want to boot Linux. The 2 GB HD has a swap partition, the rest is a native linux partition. What do I set the PROM boot-from variable to boot directly from HD without the floppy? After the Debian install, it put a symbolic link called vmlinuz in the root dir of sda1 pointing to "boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21-sun4cdm". Is there something special I need to do to the HD to make it bootable? I configured the HD using the Debian partitioning tool on the floppies. I've tried the following from the PROM prompt: boot sd(0,4,0)vmlinuz boot sd(0,4,0)boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21-sun4cdm boot sd()vmlinuz Also, once the PROM boot-from variable is set to what it should be, what should the silo.conf file have in it to just go from power-on to running Linux, no intermediate stopping at the SILO prompt? David -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Landwehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:11 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [suse-sparc] SILO:Booting SunOS Hello everybody on the list, i've a SparcStation IPC (sun4c arch) with three operating systems on it: Debian Linux, SuSE and SunOS. Dual booting the two Linux OS with SILO works fine. SILO resides on /dev/sda1 (SCSI Disk 1 with ID 1, LUN 0) SunOS 4.1.3 Kernel vmunix resides on /dev/sdb1 (SCSI Disk 2 with ID 3, LUN 0) My OpenBoot Version is 2.4 The following error occur: When i type boot /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 on the OpenBoot Prompt, then SILO comes up I wish to boot SunOS and type on the SILO prompt /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;/vmunix * (wait...it seems that the kernel is loading :) Memory address not aligned > and it falls back to the OpenBoot Prompt. Have i something missing there (maybe in the Prom ?) Or could someone send me a working silo.conf configuration file which is capable to boot Linux and SunOS as an example? Please ask me if you need more information (e.g. setenv, my silo.conf) Any hints will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Matthias
