On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:37:31PM +1030, David Fitch wrote: > (what's this crap silo says about the /etc/silo.conf must be under 1024Mb > on the disk and reckons it's to with old PROMs, so why hasn't solaris ever > complained? it's only a 4Gb disk. Anyway it's going now - second attempt > this time with a root partition of 1Gb.)
http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html#q5.60 5.60) I installed Solaris on a big disk, but now booting fails. Due to limitations in Openboot PROMs, you can't boot any of the 32bit SPARCs (sun4c, sun4m, sun4d) from a root partition that has parts lying beyond the 2GB mark on a SCSI disk. On systems with really old PROMs (revision 2.5 or less) you need to make the root partition smaller than 1GB. The Ultra PROMs are capable of this, but Solaris prior to version 2.6 also has a bug which effectively prevents Ultras from booting from large root partitions too. Patch 103640-08 or later fixes this for Solaris 2.5.1, so later 2.5.1 HW releases should be OK too. Typical error messages include: bootblk: can't find the boot program boot: cannot find misc/krtld Short read. 0x2000 chars read Read error. Scott. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
