Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:14:25 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20000916191425.B12589@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] success on Sparc 10 ;-)
On Fri, Sep 15, Jason Byrne wrote:
> I did notice the package regarding SMP detection (somewhere ;-) ) when I
> was adding to the install for later - maybe this is important for getting
> the kernel installed?
No. If it would be important, it would be a basis package which you
couldn't deselect.
> > You don't need a lilo.conf, /boot/silo.conf is the config file for SPARCs.
> > But I wonder why YaST1 looks for /sbin/lilo, I will forward this to the
> > YaST developer.
>
> ok... this makes a bit of sense - since I did notice silo.conf on
> /boot. Also - when I ran /sbin/silo to rewrite the configuration... it
> doesn't give any response... 'Added Linux' or anything similar as on an
> x86 machine.
Yes, this is something I also don't like. Silo does not read the configuration
complete if you install it. Only if you boot. So you have no chance to find
syntax errors in silo.conf before the first boot.
The advantage is that you can change silo.conf or a kernel image without
reinstalling silo like you need with lilo.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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