> On Feb 01, Jack Morgan scratched in indelible ink : > I just installed Potato onto a SS20, rebooted, then .... The PROM gave an > error like "SILO buggy old PROM can't boot after 1GB", etc. This is my first > Sparc, but I suspect that I need to "setenv" the correct boot partition. My > only HDD is 2GB. I tried setenv boot-file linux, but no luck. In fdisk, i > choose automatic partioning: > > /dev/sda1 linux > /dev/sda2 swap > /dev/sda3 whole disk label > yah. You need the boot partition to be under the 1GB limit (Think PCs and their buggy BIOS problems too)
thus: /dev/sda1 linux / (size < 1GB) < 100MB is feasible) /dev/sda2 swap swap random size /dev/sda3 whole disk (only essential if using SunOS/Solaris) /dev/sda4 linux /usr (size large) /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.aan.au || The only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distast for manual labour - dilbert