Hi Pat, Thanks for the quick reply ;-)
On Monday 26 Apr 2004 12:05 am, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > On Sunday 25 April 2004 16:37, Everard Brown wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have installed woody via 'net boot'. All went well, but I can't > > boot from the hard disk. > > > > System: SPARCstation 20 > > 32Mb RAM > > No floopy or CDROM drive > > > > Issues that make me suspicious include: > > > > o I used the 's' parameter in fdisk to partition this disk. This gave > > me: sda1 / > > sda2 swap > > sda3 Whole Disk > > > > o SILO refused to install. > > sda1 (the partition containing /boot) probably extends past the first > 1GB of disk space. On SparcStation 20s, the partition that > contains /boot must completely reside in the first 1GB of disk space > (due to OpenBOOT bugs/restrictions) That sounds a very likely cause of my problem, but when I try to create the Sun disk label ('s' option in fdisk) that is always the default. Can anyone suggest how I might acheive a partitioning scheme which would be acceptable to the install program? I already tried to split the space allocated to sda1, but I couldn't get the unused part of the partition back. I'll have a more detailed look at the fdisk options... All suggestions are still very welcome. Everard