On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:37:21PM -0500, Andrew Bolyea wrote: [ one post is enough, thanks. Please wrap your lines; a right margin in the neighbourhood of 65 to 72 seems decent. ] > I am attempting to resurrect an old SpacStation10... > > I booted the machine using a rescue floppy, and proceeded with at net > install of the Debian base system. Everything seemed to work perfectly > right up until the last step. > > SILO wasn't able to install. > > ...but no indication of why? Any ideas?
Just a guess; you made the root partition too large. I can't remember the exact number but the kernel has to be within the first N cylinders of the drive, where N is a number like 1024. This is, IIRC, only a problem with PROMs on 32-bit sparcs. I'm sure someone will correct me :-) I just sepnt five minutes looking for the doc I got this info from , but no joy. I solved the problem by making the first partition small and mounting it as / . You can also mount it as /boot if you are willing to play around with your silo.conf. > so I tried to create a boot floppy. > > Creation of boot floppy failed. I tried 3 different floppies to no avail. I find floppies on sparc to be a cruel joke. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Q: What's the big deal about rm, I have been deleting stuff for years? And never lost anything.. oops! A: ... -- Frequently Unasked Questions
