Moe
I installed Debian 2.1r4 on my sparc 1+. The installation is fine but I cant boot off the hdd, instead I boot of the cdrom then issue "boot: linux root=/dev/sda1" then I am able to boot ok. Any ideas? I think that 'silo' is not configured correctly because I cant boot off the hdd.
I've never run Debian, so I'm performing a bit of a stretch to answer your question. All I can offer is a tale of a recent experience where I had difficulty getting LILO to boot my SuSE 6.4 fresh installation where all the drives/devices were scsi based. Since you're running a sparcstation, I'm assuming it is also an all-scsi device type box. Anyway, LILO would start booting, but I'd only see "LI" and then the machine would stop. The solution was to put the keyword "linear" in LILO's configuration file, and then re-run LILO. For whatever reason, the geometry of the drive was confusing the heck out of linux, and using "linear" fixed this, allowing Linux to boot. Hope this helped, Argentium -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/