Aha. My disk is 4.3G, and I just made one large root partition for it. That must be the problem.
I normally do make a small boot partition, but I had some problems when I did this with the Sparc. For one thing, in the install fdisk I couldn't find an option to toggle the bootable flag, which I normally do for my boot partition. Does this not apply in the Debian Sparc install or what? Also, after I got the drive partitioned when I tried creating a separate partition for boot, I got a lot of errors about the system not knowing where my root partition was supposed to be. Creating just one big partition seemed to make that problem go away. /Owen On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:04, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, 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? > > What size is your hard disk? Some sparc PROMs can't boot if the kernel > is beyond the 1 Gig mark (the rest of the 32-bit sparcs have the same > problem at 2 Gig). SILO enforces the 1 Gig limit and will fail if your > root partition is beyond 1 Gig. The solution is to make a separate /boot > partition for holding your kernels (only needs to be 5-10 meg). > > The frustrating part was all the installer tells you is that it failed, > not why. And even when I spawned a shell, it took me a while for it to tell > me what was wrong... > > --Kurt > -- Owen B. Mehegan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.nerdnetworks.org "Electricians have all kinds of good horror stories. Did you know that concrete is a conductor? And that electricity can arc up to one inch per ten amps? So your typical 200A overhead power line can fry you if you're grounded and get within a couple feet of it." --JWZ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
