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> Jason Fraley wrote:
>
> > Have you created a Sun disk label on the disk ?
>
> Umm no?
>
> Why would I have a sun label? Using the rescue disk I can use the
> floppy's kernel to mount the file system. Wouldn't I need Solaris
> installed to make a Sun disk label? I guess what I'm wondering is why
> I'm not getting a "SILO:" prompt when I power cycle, and why I get no
> confirmation on success after manually running /sbin/silo that is setup
> properly now.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
I think the boot ROM has to see a sun disk label
in order to boot from said disk ...
there is an option in fdisk (option s)
that allows you to do this ..
