[suse-sparc] Booting Solaris7 with SILO beyond 1GB ?

From: Till Jaeger (till.jaeger@epost.de)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 06:23:17 PST

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    Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:23:17 +0100
From: Till Jaeger <till.jaeger@epost.de>
Message-ID: <125113437244.20011106152317@epost.de>
Subject: [suse-sparc] Booting Solaris7 with SILO beyond 1GB ?

    Hi Guys,

    i have recently set up a Sparcstation Voyager with Suse Sparc Linux
    and Solaris 7. My intention is to boot up multiple Linux and Solaris partitions
    (just for evaluation of different applications).
    I have used a 18Gb external HD to get enough space for the various
    installations.

    My problem is:
    When i try to use SILO to boot a solaris image which has its root partition in
    the upper part of this large HD then SILO prints the error message:
    ------
    'Buggy old proms don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the disk.
     Send complains to SMCC.
     Read Error on block 1
     Internal error while loading physical blocks from device
     Image not found...try again.'
    ------

    Is there any way to work around this ?
    Do i need a PROM update ? When yes, where do i get it ?

    Any help would be appreciated.
    best regards, Till 

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