> (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
> > 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
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
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
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...
> "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
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
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