RE: Problem with SILO

the partition your linux kernel is on is after the 1GB "limit"
of your prom.... the error message says it.  I had this problem
also and ended up making a 15mb linux partition at the beginning
and mounted it as /boot.  It will let you run the linux system
that way...


>--- Original Message ---
>From: Peter Becker <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Date: 6/20/02 10:39:17 AM
>

>Hi,
>
>this time in English,
>
>It´s a SS20 with ROM 2.22
>
>Ok,
>
>on Disk with SCSI ID 3 I´ve installed SuSe 7.3,
>on Disk with SCSI ID 1 I´ve installed Solaris 9.
>
>In PROM I can boot both Systems by using "boot linux" or "boot
solaris". I
>did this nvalias stuff in the prom.
>
>This ist silo.conf file
>
>------
>timeout=1000
>partition=1
>read-only
>
>image=/vmlinuz
>  label=linux
>  root=/dev/sdb4
>
>other=/iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@1,0;1
>  label=solaris
>------
>
>Booting Linux works fine (beside my other question)
>
>but if I try to boot solaris I get this error message
>
>------
>Fatal error: Wrong disklabel magic
>Buggy old PROMs don´t allow reading past 1GB from start of the
disk. Send
>complains to SMCC
>
>Read error on block 1 (tried 512, got -1)
>
>Internal error while loading physical blocks from device
>
>Image not found.... try again
>------
>
>any suggestions
>
>thanks
>
>Peter
>
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