Thank you Nathan for your help. I have a small /boot partition (/dev/sda1) consisting of the first 10M of sda.
/boot /dev/sda1 /usr /dev/sda2 / /dev/sdb1 swap /dev/sdb2 Currently silo.conf is pointing to root=/dev/sdb1 Which is correct. And there is link to vmlinuz in that dir. Should I change it to the /boot partition? Doesn't something need to be written to the MBR inorder for the system to boot using SILO? Do I need to change something in OpenBoot? Right now everytime I boot the machine it puts me to the ok> prompt. I belive this is OpenBoot? Then I insert the Debian Rescue Floppy and boot from it. ok> boot floppy Then I use the boot option... boot: linux root=/dev/sdb1 Which correctly boots the machine (I believe using the kernel on the hard dirve, not the floppy?) Sorry for all the questions... I am familiar with Debian on i386. This is my first time installing Debian on a sparc. Any ideas? Thank you, Andrew. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:28 pm Subject: Re: SILO and Create Boot Floppy Fails. > 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.
