On Sunday 25 April 2004 16:37, Everard Brown wrote: > Hi All, > > I have installed woody via 'net boot'. All went well, but I can't > boot from the hard disk. > > System: SPARCstation 20 > 32Mb RAM > No floopy or CDROM drive > > Issues that make me suspicious include: > > o I used the 's' parameter in fdisk to partition this disk. This gave > me: sda1 / > sda2 swap > sda3 Whole Disk > > o SILO refused to install.
sda1 (the partition containing /boot) probably extends past the first 1GB of disk space. On SparcStation 20s, the partition that contains /boot must completely reside in the first 1GB of disk space (due to OpenBOOT bugs/restrictions) Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
