Message-ID: <1005061961.3be807494e772@mailserver.belleville.ch> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 16:52:41 +0100 (CET) From: til@belleville.ch Subject: [suse-sparc] Re: Booting Solaris7 with SILO beyond 1GB ?
Hi,
I don't know about Solaris, but with Linux & Co. I have a couple of
small partitions at the beginning of the disk with just the kernel image
in it, mountet as /boot. The kernel then can mount root partitions
beyond 1 GB. Maybe it works with solaris as well.
Til
Till Jaeger wrote:
>
> 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 ?
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