Re: TFTP install -> SILO woes!

2001-01-30 Thread Jack Morgan
Thanks, I'll try tonight. --jack Feb 01, Jack Morgan scratched in indelible ink : > > > I just installed Potato onto a SS20, rebooted, then The PROM gave an > > error like "SILO buggy old PROM can't boot after 1GB", etc. This is my first > > Sparc, but I suspect that I need to "setenv" the c

Re: TFTP install -> SILO woes!

2001-01-30 Thread Sean R. Lynch
The partition that has your kernel on it cannot be larger than 1GB, and I suspect if your disk is 2GB, your swap is probably not larger than 1GB so your root is >1GB. You need to repartition. I had the same problem with a 9GB drive, but I was still able to force SILO to boot manually by giving it

Re: TFTP install -> SILO woes!

2001-01-30 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Feb 01, Jack Morgan scratched in indelible ink : > I just installed Potato onto a SS20, rebooted, then The PROM gave an > error like "SILO buggy old PROM can't boot after 1GB", etc. This is my first > Sparc, but I suspect that I need to "setenv" the correct boot partition. My > only HDD

TFTP install -> SILO woes!

2001-01-30 Thread Jack Morgan
I just installed Potato onto a SS20, rebooted, then The PROM gave an error like "SILO buggy old PROM can't boot after 1GB", etc. This is my first Sparc, but I suspect that I need to "setenv" the correct boot partition. My only HDD is 2GB. I tried setenv boot-file linux, but no luck. In fdisk,