A separate boot partition is not needed, and the first partition doesn't have to be root. Make sure the /dev/BOOT line in your fstab is commented out.
-Chris -----Original Message----- From: Chris Nolan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Help w/ 2006.0 on Ultra5 Sorry for the cruft, but I'm having an issue and I'm not exactly sure how to solve it. I have an old Ultra5. It came without a hard drive so I dug up an old 100g drive and installed that in it. (Jumpered as Cable Select) Added in my quad ethernet card as this will be a firewall once I get it working. When I partitioned it, I created the Sun Disk Label and made the following. /dev/hda1 / (512mb) ext2 /dev/hda2 swap (512mb) swap /dev/hda3 whole disk /dev/hda4 /usr (15g) ext3 /dev/hda5 /var (15g) ext3 /dev/hda6 /home (rest) ext3 I followed the 2006.0 doc and when it comes to the edit the fstab portion, this is where I get confused. In there it wants a line for /dev/BOOT but I don't have a /boot partition. Should I have created a /boot partition? I was under the impression that the first partition needed to be / . I get through the doc and make my fstab without putting in a /boot line (removed it) and reboot the machine and it comes up saying "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable." However the kernel file in /boot is executable. And is under the 3.5m for a 2.4 on 64bit system. Can someone please point me in the right direction as to what I'm doing wrong? Many thanks. Chris livecd ~ # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot total 4002 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 525858 Jul 14 09:59 System-2.4.32-sparc-r6.map lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jul 13 19:17 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jul 14 10:50 fd.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 14 10:50 first.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jul 14 10:50 generic.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 Jul 14 10:50 ieee32.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7112 Jul 14 10:50 isofs.b -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3449968 Jul 14 09:59 kernel-2.4.32-sparc-r6 <<<<< -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65024 Jul 14 10:50 second.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 243 Jul 14 11:01 silo.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62436 Jul 14 10:50 silotftp.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 14 10:50 ultra.b livecd ~ # more /mnt/gentoo/boot/silo.conf partition = 1 # Boot partition (= root partition) root = /dev/hda1 # Root partition timeout = 150 # Wait 15 seconds before booting the default section image = /boot/kernel-2.4.32-sparc-r6 label = Gentoo Linux 2.4.32-r6 -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
