I finally got Debian installed on my IPX, with SILO included so I don't have to use a boot floppy. Here are two issues that (I think) are the only things keeping me from getting the system to boot Debian.
1. When I start up and get to the Openboot prompt, I type "b" to boot, and get the error "SCSI device 3,0 is not responding. Can't open boot device." This is because the SCSI ID of my hard drive is 1. If I go to new command mode and do "boot /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0" SILO starts to load, but... 2. The next thing I see is "SILO," followed by the following errors: "Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the disk. Send complaints to SMCC Read error on block 786436 (tried 4096, got -1) Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error) Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf No config file loaded, you can boot just from this command line Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt E.g. /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;4/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4 or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of boot disk)" Whaaaaa? Most of this stuff doesn't make much sense to me, probably due to my complete lack of experience with Sun hardware. For reference, my boot drive has four partitions. 1 is /boot, 2 is swap, 3 is "whole disk," and 4 is / (root). I've tried a few different commands to get the system to boot, without luck so far. What did I do wrong? /Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
