> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it > > to boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label. > > Sounds like you've make an fdisk disklabel on it, the sparc prom needs > to see a sun disklabel (known as a bsd disklabel in fdisk).
I agree, but isn't it "Sun disk label"? At least that is what I have on my SS20: huilu:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 14 heads, 72 sectors, 2036 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Flag Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 0 1400 705600 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 1401 1401 1441 20160 83 Linux native /dev/sda3 0 0 2036 1026144 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 u 1442 1442 2036 299376 82 Linux swap huilu:~# grep DISKLABEL /usr/src/linux-2.2.7/.config # CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL=y # CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL is defined as "SMD disklabel (Sun partition tables) support" in linux/Documentation/Configure.help > /Anders // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland