Hi, I just got hold of an old Sparc IPC that nobody used anymore and tried to install Debian on it after swapping the defective first hard disk with an old scsi disk lying around (with an old i386 Debian on it..)
The installation worked quite well (it /is/ fun seeing tux for the first time on a Sun..) until silo run. It complains that I have to push down /boot/second.b into an area below the magic 1GB boundary. But how can I do this when I only have a 512MB disk :) ?? I even checked with debugfs and (after some shifting around) managed to get /boot/second.b to be in the first 1000 blocks. I don't think I can move it any farther to the beginning. So it seems to be something more obvious. I am also a bit confused about the "whole disk" partition memtioned in the (short) silo docs. As my disk was used on i386 Debian before I left the partitioning alone /dev/sda1 -> /, /dev/sda2 -> swap (both primary partitions). Did I miss something here? When I now boot with the newly created boot floppy, I tried entering `sd(0)/vmlinuz' at the prompt but OpenBoot complained about sd0 not responding. I thought I should be able to boot a kernel on sda1 at the silo prompt. Is this not so? I also tried booting with the 2.2.1 kernel but then neither tux displayed correctly nor was the text mode initialized correctly. Was this to be expected?? Thanks for the help and please CC me as I am not subscribed to debian-user. Cheers Detlev -- Practice random senselessness and act kind of beautiful.
