From: "Daniel Harris" <cjunky@geek.com> Message-Id: <200602171.62635@webbox.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:24:33 -0700 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Problem with SILO
the partition your linux kernel is on is after the 1GB "limit"
of your prom.... the error message says it. I had this problem
also and ended up making a 15mb linux partition at the beginning
and mounted it as /boot. It will let you run the linux system
that way...
>--- Original Message ---
>From: Peter Becker <peter.becker15@whopper.de>
>To: suse-sparc@suse.com
>Date: 6/20/02 10:39:17 AM
>
>Hi,
>
>this time in English,
>
>Itīs a SS20 with ROM 2.22
>
>Ok,
>
>on Disk with SCSI ID 3 Iīve installed SuSe 7.3,
>on Disk with SCSI ID 1 Iīve installed Solaris 9.
>
>In PROM I can boot both Systems by using "boot linux" or "boot
solaris". I
>did this nvalias stuff in the prom.
>
>This ist silo.conf file
>
>------
>timeout=1000
>partition=1
>read-only
>
>image=/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sdb4
>
>other=/iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@1,0;1
> label=solaris
>------
>
>Booting Linux works fine (beside my other question)
>
>but if I try to boot solaris I get this error message
>
>------
>Fatal error: Wrong disklabel magic
>Buggy old PROMs donīt allow reading past 1GB from start of the
disk. Send
>complains to SMCC
>
>Read error on block 1 (tried 512, got -1)
>
>Internal error while loading physical blocks from device
>
>Image not found.... try again
>------
>
>any suggestions
>
>thanks
>
>Peter
>
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