On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 05:06:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben, > > bc> None of that helps it boot a Linux kernel > from an non-UFS filesystem. > > There is no non-UFS filesystem here. I > suppose there is a remote possibility of > wanting to boot from an external CD in > the future.
You've no idea what you are talking about. You are booting Linux on a harddriver attached to your sparc. You _are_ booting off of an ext2 filesystem (IOW, a filesystem that is not UFS). The PROM has no idea what that filesystem is. > bc> Are you trolling, or do you have a real question hidden somewhere in > there? > > I must be trolling--taking the role of a troll. > > In any case, have learned a little. I hadn't > thought about the distinction between "booting > the OS" and "bootstrapping the OS Loader". > > This is my tentative silo.conf. Perhaps someone > can mention an error or suggest an improvement. > > timeout=100 > read-only > image=/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1/vmlinuz > label=woody > image=/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1/vmlinuz > label=potato I suspect you can just use Linux device names, but aside from that you need a root= for each image, else the kernel wont know what to mount. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
