Re: Booting 10.0 from CD on Sparc IPC fails - Data Access Exception

Hi,

Julian Coleman wrote:
>> Does the old ROM have no limit? seems strange. I also remember the limit
>> being 2G and 4G depending on the system.
> The limit varies depending on the machine.  From the sparc/boot man page:
>
>    On sun4 and early PROM version sun4c machines, the PROM can only boot
>    from the first 1Gb of the disk.
>
>    On later PROM version sun4c and early PROM version sun4m machines, the
>    PROM can only boot from the first 2Gb of the disk.
>
>    On later PROM version sun4m machines, the PROM can only boot from the
>    first 4Gb of the disk.

Actually, I checked. the 2GB hard disk is partitioned as root + swap + 
home. So that the root partition which contains the kernel is < 1GB and 
also in the first GB of the hard disk. I probably did this... years ago 
and avoid issues.

Riccardo