Doh!  I read it backwards.  It is probably the same type of problem
though.  It is like when you want to Dualboot Linux & NT on the
same box...  Both have to have some of their files (mostly kernel
stuff) in the first 1GB of the disk or they wont work.  Hehe,
sorry about that, I did read it backwards.
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>From: "Tallbloke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 6/21/02 2:34:38 AM
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>> the partition your linux kernel is on is after the 1GB "limit"
>> of your prom.... the error message says it.  I had this problem
>> also and ended up making a 15mb linux partition at the beginning
>> and mounted it as /boot.  It will let you run the linux system
>> that way...
>
>Hang on. Peter said linux boots ok but solaris *on his other
hard disk*
>doesn't.
>
>
>> >image=/vmlinuz
>> >  label=linux
>> >  root=/dev/sdb4
>> >
>> >other=/iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@1,0;1
>> >  label=solaris
>> >------
>> >
>> >Booting Linux works fine (beside my other question)
>> >
>> >but if I try to boot solaris I get this error message
>> >
>> >------
>> >Fatal error: Wrong disklabel magic
>> >Buggy old PROMs don�t allow reading past 1GB from start of
the
>> disk. Send
>> >complains to SMCC
>> >
>> >Read error on block 1 (tried 512, got -1)
>> >
>> >Internal error while loading physical blocks from device
>> >
>> >Image not found.... try again
>
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