On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 06:30:45PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:06:40PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > > > >> I just finished installing debian in my IPX. Well, almost. > >>When it is the time to make the disk bootable, this is the message I > >>am getting: > >> > >>"SILO wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your > >>system if you create a boot floppy, but it won't be able to boot > >>without a floppy." > >> > >>What could be causing that and what can I do? > > > > > >Can you show me the partition map from fdisk? Also, switching to the > >second console (ALT+F2) will show error messages more verbosely. > > > > Mauricio, > > try to repeartition the disk, and put /boot on the first partition. Make > sure that /boot is small enough not to confuse SILO. I made the mistake > here [1] to use a single partition for the whole disk, and SILO didn't > like that.
Not sure what you are refering to. I've never run into that problem, nor heard of it. I suspect he has a seperate /boot partition, which will only work if you are using my install images on http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/