Mauricio declared on Saturday 29 November 2003 07:49 pm: > At 13:30 -0500 11/29/03, Ben Collins wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Mauricio wrote: > >> > >> You mean this: > >> > >> /dev/sda > >> /dev/sda1 1 102 49M ext3 /boot > >> /dev/sda2 103 899 382M ext3 / > >> /dev/sda4 900 6175 2534M ext3 /usr > >> /dev/sda5 6176 8104 926M ext3 /home > >> /dev/sda6 8105 8637 256M ext3 /var > >> /dev/sda7 8638 9006 177M swap > > > >You do have a "Whole Disk" partition on sda3, right? > > Do I have to physically create one or it is assumed to be there?
You have to "physically create one". > >If you are doing the /boot seperate, it really isn't supported > >automatically unless you use the images I posted about. Otherwise, > >you'll need to do this at a prompt before rebooting the install: > > > >cd /target > >mv etc/silo.conf boot/ > >ln -s . boot/etc > >ln -s . boot/boot > >ln -s ../boot/silo.conf etc/silo.conf > >cd / > >silo -r /target -f > > How about if I then repartition the HD as follows: > > Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 0 8208 4038336 83 Linux native / > /dev/sda2 8209 8741 261744 83 Linux swap swap > (256MB) /dev/sda4 8742 9006 129888 83 Linux > native /var (128MB) > > I did so and ended up having the very same problem. So, I dropped to > the shell and did as you suggested above. I did not go that far: On old (non-ultrasparc) machines, you cannot have a bigger than 1GB partition that contains your kernel and silo.conf... which would be the 4GB / partition in your example below. I'd recommend you do something like: /dev/sda1 500MB / /dev/sda2 256MB swap /dev/sda3 (whole disk partition) /dev/sda4 1500MB /usr /dev/sda5 250MB /var /dev/sda6 (what's left) /home you can do that with the normal installer OR should be able to use your original partitioning scheme (using a separate /boot) with Ben's instructions above. The messages below are trying to tell you that SILO can't boot off of the partition because it extends past the first 1GB of the disk. > SPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard > ROM Rev. 2.9, 48 MB memory installed, Serial #12648430. > Ethernet address 8:0:20:c0:ff:ee, Host ID: 57c0ffee. > > > Rebooting with command: > SCSI device 2,0 is not responding > Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and > args: > SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the > disk. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/