Glad to hear that dude, hopefully it all works out with your install. As far as the keyboard there is a way to remap keys once you are all up and running, did the keyboard work fine before... what kinda of a msg is it giving.
--Roman On Wed, Sep 20, 2006, John wrote: > Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I must > have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a totally > stuffed sun keyboard! :-( By trial and error I managed to find the keys to > type "root" and the pw. Interestingly I can ssh as root into the sun box and > my pc keyboard has no problems. > > As a further sweet and sour result, my Qlogic FC card was found by the > kernel but it wants some firmware. > > > > On 9/20/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Tuesday 19 September 2006 06:17, John wrote: > >> I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand, > >> please. > > > >Here's the first bit of my working silo.conf: > >$ cat /boot/silo.conf > >partition=1 > >message=/boot/message.txt > >root=/dev/hda1 > >default=linux > >read-only > >timeout=100 > > > >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64 > > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64 > > label=linux > > > >I don't have a separate /boot partition obviously. > > > >Cheers, > >FJP > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
