On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:00:42PM -0400, Owen B. Mehegan wrote: > I just finished the grueling task of installing Debian on a Sparc IPX over > the wire, using a combination of tftp, nfs, and http. > > Now that the install is done, I choose "make system bootable." Debian tries > to install SILO, and fails to do so. Why would this happen? > > One weird and possibly related thing that happened during the install was > that it told me my hard drive didn't have a Sun disk label. It's just a > Seagate SCSI disk that I picked up used at a swapfest. I had to enter all of > the drive geometry myself, so I wonder if I got something wrong during this > process. Any suggestions for how I can fix this would be appreciated, since > I don't really want to have to boot this system with a boot floppy all the > time. > > Thanks in advance...
How bis is the driver? If it's too large (1 or 2 gigs, depending), you may be running into a problem where the boot loader is not in the proper place on the disk (OBP restriction, not a Linux one). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
