Sun, as far as I know, doesn't work their disklabels like x86 machines
do. One thing I've found that you have to have is a type 5 partition
(Whole disk) that encompasses the entire drive. Then create your
partitions. You may be able to boot off a floppy, then add the
partition through fdisk (IIR
I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it to
boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label.
The kernel on the cdrom is 2.2.1
The bootloader is silo.
The disk is a 1.3gb with 2 partitions. First partition is almost the entire
disk with type 83. th
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