Re: [suse-sparc] simple question not covered in install FAQ

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 13:03:55 PST

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:03:55 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20010314220355.A28669@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] simple question not covered in install FAQ

On Wed, Mar 14, JASON LOVE wrote:

> What should I set my boot-file variable to? As I'm installing SuSE a message
> comes up telling me that I have boot-file currently set to "disk", and that I
> should "consider doing setenv boot-file."

When did you this ? I can only think about silo who prints this.
I know that our installer does not print this message.

> So what exactly should I set boot-file to?

To nothing. boot-device is the important variable, boot-file is
for selecting the kernel which should be loaded. disk is the wrong
value for boot-file.

Thorsten

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