"ED Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> i just purchased red hat linux 6 for a sparc station 10. i purchased the
> product from red hat over debian or caldera or suse becaasue i thought
> there would be credible help desk support at the red hat end. boy was i
> wrong. my problem which i am looking for some advice on, since red hat
> has not gotten a solution to me, is after i execute a "BOOT CDROM" and
> run SILO and go thru the whole install sequence completely without any
> problems is that on restart i try a "BOOT DISK" and i recieve "ILLEGAL
> INSTRUCTION".
This means SILO isn't found. Check the setup in the OpenPROM (boot-device,
'disk' means the internal disk or SCSI ID 3). You might try stuff like
'boot disk1', etc.
[...]
> i would warn anyone trying to install red hat linux on a sparc to think
> twice about using redhat.
It works without a hitch here (SS 4, several IPXs).
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