RE: [suse-sparc] Problem with SILO

From: Tallbloke (rog_at_tallbloke.net)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 10:34:38 CEST

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    From: "Tallbloke" <rog@tallbloke.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:38 +0100
Message-ID: <JOEMLHKOHCGNPFLCCHNHMEIBCBAA.rog@tallbloke.net>
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...

    Hang on. Peter said linux boots ok but solaris *on his other hard disk*
    doesn't.

    > >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 

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