Boot partitions

I have a newbie question that I cannot see the answer to in the archives. I am a Primary School teacher whose school has inherited a SPARC IPX running SunOS 4.1.3U. I am new to SPARC's but not to Linux. I've installed the base package of SLINK 2.1 (kernel 2.0.35) in a '/boot' partition

Re: Boot partitions

Hi Daren, I had similar problems when trying to make a SPARCstation 4 to work with a 4GB disk. The problem here is really the 1GB limit imposed by some Sun PROMs. I have a hunch that what SILO (the Linux loader for SPARC) couldn't read (and was complaining loudly about) was the silo.conf

Re: Boot partitions

I am a Primary School teacher whose school has inherited a SPARC IPX running SunOS 4.1.3U. I am new to SPARC's but not to Linux. I've installed the base package of SLINK 2.1 (kernel 2.0.35) in a '/boot' partition '/sda1' (28MB). I previously used to fire up the Sun with the following

Re: Boot partitions

Yes, Potato install will be a lot less of an headache to get up and running. And from memory (I have an IPX also, set up a /boot partition since I replaced the OEM drive with a 9GB -- no idea if the later IPX prom has the 1GB problem) you'll have to boot manually from silo the first time, then