RE: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??

From: Hamans, B.C. (B.C.Hamans@student.tue.nl)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 04:55:51 PST

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From: "Hamans, B.C." <B.C.Hamans@student.tue.nl>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:55:51 +0100 
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??

    Hi Lou and all other,

    No I don't get a silo prompt.
    My SS5 boots and shows me an 'OK' prompt. (Openboot?? or something else in
    the boot prom)
    Then i type in 'boot disk' nothing happens and the system is waiting for
    'Arp packages' or something like that.
    I can boot the cdrom via 'boot cdrom'.
    I think me problem is 2-fold i did not configure Silo or the boot prom. I
    tried to configure silo and cheched the option add linux entry to boot prom
    etc. Tried writing info in MBR and on boot partion boot don't work.

    Anybody an idea?
    Thanks again,
    Bob

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Lou Picciano [mailto:LouPicciano@comcast.net]
    Sent: dinsdag 5 maart 2002 5:18
    To: Hamans, B.C.
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Boot trouble SILO, PROM??

    Did you try simply boot disk -or- boot disk0

    You should have made a silo entry as you installed SuSE, but you can tweak
    that later...

    Are you getting to the 'SILO:' prompt?? If so, this puts you at the /boot
    directory; you can even type the name of your linux image to boot for the
    time being.

    Lou

    > Hi,
    >
    > I managed to install SuSE 7.3 on my SparcStation5. Now i would like to
    boot
    > in it. At the moment I can only put in my SuSE CD boot from it via the
    > command "Boot CDROM" abort the installer and chose to boot an already
    > installed system. SuSE is the only OS on the system. Do I need SILO? How
    do
    > i configure it.
    > For the moment I don't know how to boot from the disk.
    > /boot is on /dev/sda1
    > / on /dev/sda4
    > /dev/sda3 Whole disk
    > /dev/sda1/ swap
    > /dev/sda = Quantum
    > When starting my system I can't get it to boot from disk. I tried an
    awfull
    > lot of combinations using boot diskX:X....
    >
    > Can anybody help me. How do i configure the bootprom of the Sparc and/or
    > Silo??
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Bob 

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