On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Wilson Yau wrote: > Hi! need your help again! > > Floppy installation of Debian was almost successfully finished, but the > SUN box was not able to boot directly from the hard disk to continue the > second part of installation. > > I have consulted the docs "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For SPARC" > and "OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual" and tried commands like > 'boot disk', 'boot disk1', 'boot disk1:a', etc, but they all not worked > for me 8-(
Do you remember the device name you used under the installation (something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1) for the root filesystem? If so, do this: ok> boot floppy root=/dev/sda1 Using the device you used in the installation. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
