You guess what? Debian was installed on /dev/sda1, but it was 'boot cdrom' that worked....bizarre.
Ben Collins wrote: > > 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] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
