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...

Hang on. Peter said linux boots ok but solaris *on his other hard disk*
doesn't.


> >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


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