Still hoping for WiFi ... On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, JLB wrote:
> Since no one is answering me-- I'm afraid I'm going to have to corner > someone who's obviously upgraded beyond the stock 2.4.18 (or whatever) > that comes with Woody. > > ARE YOU USING A SUN DISKLABEL OR A PC-STYLE PARTITION TABLE ON YOUR BOOT > DRIVE? > > I am having HUGE problems trying to upgrade to 2.4.26. Even though I > compile in support for sun disklabels, the system STILL looks for a > MS-DOG-style partition table on bootup, then freaks out when it can't find > it, and drops me into a shell. > > HOW DID YOU AVOID THIS ISSUE? > Since you explicitly called me ... I simply dpkg -i the new kernel image from inside ben tftp image. More specifically on a Sparc you do need a SUN disklabel with the partition 3 set on the whole disk. And no I never saw on a sparc any kernel asking for a MSDOS disklabel. (I consider myself a 'beginner' still I own about 10 sparc all running different solaris/linux/netbsd versions) Saluti, Antonio Prioglio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html