On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > At 22:04 -0500 11/28/03, Ben Collins wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > >> I just finished installing debian in my IPX. Well, almost. > >> When it is the time to make the disk bootable, this is the message I > >> am getting: > >> > >> "SILO wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your > >> system if you create a boot floppy, but it won't be able to boot > >> without a floppy." > >> > >> What could be causing that and what can I do? > > > >Can you show me the partition map from fdisk? > > You mean this: > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 1 102 49M ext3 /boot > /dev/sda2 103 899 382M ext3 / > /dev/sda4 900 6175 2534M ext3 /usr > /dev/sda5 6176 8104 926M ext3 /home > /dev/sda6 8105 8637 256M ext3 /var > /dev/sda7 8638 9006 177M swap
You do have a "Whole Disk" partition on sda3, right? If you are doing the /boot seperate, it really isn't supported automatically unless you use the images I posted about. Otherwise, you'll need to do this at a prompt before rebooting the install: cd /target mv etc/silo.conf boot/ ln -s . boot/etc ln -s . boot/boot ln -s ../boot/silo.conf etc/silo.conf cd / silo -r /target -f -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
