No luck. I tried /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4
and got "Could not find /vmlinux (Unknown ext2 error) Image not found... try again" I also tried /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4 With the same result. /Owen > -----Original Message----- > From: Solarisexpert.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:50 AM > To: Owen B. Mehegan; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close > > > (Chances of success 0.01% considered my experience)... > > Easy to try , according to your output : > > (from SILO boot): /sbus/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4 > > It sounds like it cannot find / (/etc under / filesystem in your case). > > Cheers > > Raoul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Owen B. Mehegan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:36 AM > > To: Solarisexpert.com; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close > > > > > > Yes, it's a single 4.3G drive. There's a floppy too, but no other > > drives of > > any kind. > > > > /Owen > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Solarisexpert.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:33 AM > > > To: Owen B. Mehegan; [email protected] > > > Subject: RE: Booting Debian on my IPX - I'm close > > > > > > > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
