You need to do a little debugging to figure it out. Maybe you don't have a `vmlinuz' in /boot? Maybe it has something to do with both disks showing up as /dev/sda? Or maybe that was just a typo. Boot the CDROM and check /boot and / to see what they have in them.
a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey, all. > > I've got a SS10 with two 500 MB drives ( roughly ). I've made sure that > both have the Sun whole-disk partition on them ( 's' in fdisk ), but it > seems no matter what I do, I can't get it to boot off the internal disk. > Here's the partitioning scheme now ( sizes are rough estimates ): > > Disk1: > /dev/sda1 10M /boot > /dev/sda2 64M swap > /dev/sda3 -- Whole Disk > /dev/sda4 300M / > /dev/sda5 130M /usr/share > > Disk2: > /dev/sda1 430M /usr > /dev/sda2 64M swap > /dev/sda3 -- Whole Disk > > Silo.conf: > > partition=1 > root=/dev/sda4 > timeout=100 > image=1/vmlinuz > label=linux > read-only > > I can boot from floppy, and from cdrom, but everytime the SS boots, I get > this: > > Boot device: /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],400000/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and > args: > Illegal Instruction > > attempts to: > > boot disk:4 > > fail similarly. > > I'm pretty new to the Sparc architecture, so any help would be > appreciated. I'd prefer not to have to mess with boot floppies or boot > cds... You don't want to boot the CD? How are you installing the software then? a
