From: "Daniel Harris" <cjunky@geek.com> Message-Id: <210602172.25834@webbox.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:10:36 -0700 Subject: RE: RE: [suse-sparc] Problem with SILO
Doh! I read it backwards. It is probably the same type of problem
though. It is like when you want to Dualboot Linux & NT on the
same box... Both have to have some of their files (mostly kernel
stuff) in the first 1GB of the disk or they wont work. Hehe,
sorry about that, I did read it backwards.
>--- Original Message ---
>From: "Tallbloke" <rog@tallbloke.net>
>To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
>Date: 6/21/02 2:34:38 AM
>
>> 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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