On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > [ Please CC me on all replies ] > > I'm currently trying to install Debian on a Sun Enterprise 450 with a > SCSI drive. OpenBSD's bootloader has worked fine in the past, but when > trying to install silo, it seems that nothing ever gets written onto the > disk; when booting, OpenBoot can't recognize any valid boot loader on > the drive. I've tried versions of silo all the way up to 1.3.0, and > not a single one of them ever prints an error; strace seems to show that > silo is writing stuff to the disk, but booting is never successful. The > disk can be written to perfectly fine, and can be mounted from the > a SPARC netinst CD shell. > > Any suggestions? I'm really stumped on this and I've tried everything I > could think of.
Are you sure that OBP is attempting to boot from the correct disk? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/