[ please don't top post ] On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:19:48PM +0100, Daniel van Eeden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) > >machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation > >everyting works fine with SILO. When I press ENTER at the boot: prompt I > >get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd > >and noticed that there is only a sparc64 file and not a sparc64.gz file. > >Accordning to the SILO file the sparc64 is supposed to be used for rescue. > >What am I doing wrong? > > > >thanks Kim > > just enter "1/boot/sparc64" to boot /boot/sparc64 from the first > partition. Afterwards edit your silo.conf.
Except that doesn't work; you need to provide a root filesystem argument to the kernel. I said "to hell with it" and did a netboot install instead. How do you edit silo.conf on a CD? :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No. > Should I include quotations after my reply?
