Eric wrote: > i got this machine working w/ slink, but when i upgraded to potato, > SILO failed to work. I only get "S". I think it may be that I just > need to re-run silo, but since I can't get any potato boot floppies to > work I can't do it (since it's linked against glibc2.1). The newest > boot floppies I could find (february 2nd or so i think...) just hang > at "loading linux". does anyone have a statically linked silo > somewhere or some newer boot floppies that might work?
If you were able to boot from slink rescue disk, just enter "linux root=/dev/sda1" at floppy SILO prompt. Then rerun silo with -f when logged as root. Or boot from slink rescue+root disks, mount your target dir from inside dbootstrap (or from shell), go to shell then run "chroot /target silo -f". Or try netbooting using the linux-a.out kernel from slink. In this case, just enter "boot net root=/dev/sda1" at OPB prompt. Then run "silo -f" when logged as root. You could also try potato bootdisks from marcus.debian.net:/pub/debian/disks-sparc/2000-02-04 Hope this helps you. -- Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.