Ragga Muffin wrote: > > John Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you. I would not have found that in a hurry. In my case. the > > incorrect soft link was in /target/boot/vmlinuz > vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21 > > > > I changed that just before the make boot disk step, and the boot disk > > step failed again. when I rebooted, I got an error message that 'the > > file just loaded does not appear to be executable' > > I think there's still something wrong with that symlink. > The output of 'file' for a sparc kernel should look like: > /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1, > statically linked, not stripped > > Maybe you should double check that.. > > > So I still have something wrong. In the sun system, is there some type > > of flag on a partition to make it bootable, like in an Intel system? How > > do I tell if I have it set? I still do not know if I damaged the > > partition table (or it's equivalent) during my first install attempt. > > AFAIK there's no such thing as a bootable flag. > That belongs to the DOS world of ancient.. > > Even if you don't plan on using SunOS or Solaris, I think you'll > have to create a Sun disklabel and a "Whole disk" partition (as partition 3) > with fdisk. Check these out. > Yes, I think it must be this last part that I am not getting. I'm still thinking in Intel disk terms.
Could you please spell it out for me. How do I want to lay out the disk? Its strange, I do have Mandrake 7.1 running on another disk (out of the machine at this time) but I do not remember handling the disk partitioning differently than I would on an Intel box. Do I need to 'reconstruct' the disklable that I undoubtedly destroyed by making my first partition start at 0? I will not be using any other OS on this box. John T
