On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 10:26:55PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote...... > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:18:39AM +1000, William Law wrote...... > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > > > Boot device: /obio/SUNW,fdtwo File and args: > > > > Can't read disk label. > > > > Can't open Sun disk label package > > > > Can't open boot device > > > > > > > > ... and am left at the ok boot prompt. > > > > > > A little more info after having tried something else .... > > > > > > I put the Debian rescue floppy in and typed 'boot' at the ok prompt. > > > The rescue disk brought me to the Debian prompt. So at the boot: prompt > > > I typed > > > > > > boot: linux root=/dev/sda1 > > > > > > and it loaded from the HD! This allowed me to complete the install > > > process and get the system working! So that's the good news. > > > > > > But now, when I reboot the system, I'm still getting the Can't read disk > > > label, etc error messages, so I'd still like to resolve this. > > > > Try changing the boot device in the Openprom to point to the HD, not to > > the floppy. > > prob should go away > > > > I made the change to the prom (setenv boot-device disk) and now it tries > reading from the HD. Unfortunately, no it gives an error message > "Illegal instruction". I'm only guessing at this point, but I think > it's looking for SILO.conf and either not finding it or getting bad > instructions from it. Does this sound plausible?
SOLVED !!! It wasn't silo.conf at all. Like I mention above, I changed the prom to point to the HD by executing setenv boot-device disk at the prom OK prompt. This, however, still produced the "Illegal Inststruction" error message every time I rebooted. In my pouring through the results of a lot of Goggling, I did find one small comment that suggested trying the following setenv boot-device disk1:1 and to my surprise, this worked! I guess the reference to disk, and not disk1:1, was just too general. Happily enjoying Debian now on my ancient Sun! Kevin
