Speaking of SILO... Can SILO boot from a Raid 1 root drive like lilo can?
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:28, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > > [ Please CC me on all replies ] > > > > I'm currently trying to install Debian on a Sun Enterprise 450 with a > > SCSI drive. OpenBSD's bootloader has worked fine in the past, but when > > trying to install silo, it seems that nothing ever gets written onto the > > disk; when booting, OpenBoot can't recognize any valid boot loader on > > the drive. I've tried versions of silo all the way up to 1.3.0, and > > not a single one of them ever prints an error; strace seems to show that > > silo is writing stuff to the disk, but booting is never successful. The > > disk can be written to perfectly fine, and can be mounted from the > > a SPARC netinst CD shell. > > > > Any suggestions? I'm really stumped on this and I've tried everything I > > could think of. > > Are you sure that OBP is attempting to boot from the correct disk? > > -- > Debian - http://www.debian.org/ > Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ > Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ > Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ >
