Is your / root filesystem in solaris greater than < 2 Gigs?? In that case, its not a Silo problem...
You can not boot solaris on old sparcs if you have a / root partition larger than 2 Gigs... Its a bug/feature in the old PROM (or Hardware). However, you can install it this way without complains from the installation program, but then its time to boot, it doesn't work... hth, Fredrik > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr�n: Peter Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Skickat: den 20 juni 2002 16:39 > Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > �mne: [suse-sparc] Problem with SILO > > > Hi, > > this time in English, > > It�s a SS20 with ROM 2.22 > > Ok, > > on Disk with SCSI ID 3 I�ve installed SuSe 7.3, > on Disk with SCSI ID 1 I�ve installed Solaris 9. > > In PROM I can boot both Systems by using "boot linux" or > "boot solaris". I > did this nvalias stuff in the prom. > > This ist silo.conf file > > ------ > timeout=1000 > partition=1 > read-only > > 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 > ------ > > any suggestions > > thanks > > Peter > > -- > Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
