Is this the only drive you have on this system ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Owen B. Mehegan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close > > > 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] >
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