Re: Problems booting Slink

1999-03-17 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> (Is it possible to dd the boot floppy onto a spare hard disc partition > then boot from there with appropriate arguments to SILO? This is the It is a little trickier than that because you need *two* floppies. Check the debian-sparc archives for my comments on doing this with a zip disk, the appr

Re: Problems booting Slink

1999-03-17 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
> > Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot > > floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines > > before the SILO line? > > I'm trying to boot from floppy by typing boot floppy (at the new style > prompt) or b floppy (at the old style prompt). In

Re: Problems booting Slink

1999-03-16 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On 16 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: > Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot > floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines > before the SILO line? I'm trying to boot from floppy by typing boot floppy (at the new style prompt) or b floppy (at t

Re: Problems booting Slink

1999-03-16 Thread Steve Dunham
Angel Martin Alganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun > > disk label? YOu have to do that > > I made my rescue flopy using rawrite2 on a Windows box using the > resc1440.bin floppy ima

Re: Problems booting Slink

1999-03-16 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun > disk label? YOu have to do that I made my rescue flopy using rawrite2 on a Windows box using the resc1440.bin floppy image. Unfortunately I don't have another Linux box around here...

Re: Problems booting Slink

1999-03-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Angel" == Angel Martin Alganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angel> Hello! I am trying to install Slink on a Sparc station and get Angel> stuck at the boot: prompt. The documentaion does not seem too Angel> clear to me, so that I cannot figure out what to do. I am Angel> getting the following

Problems booting Slink

1999-03-12 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
Hello! I am trying to install Slink on a Sparc station and get stuck at the boot: prompt. The documentaion does not seem too clear to me, so that I cannot figure out what to do. I am getting the following error message: SILO Fatal error: Cannot read partition Illegal or malformed device name Fata