Subject: Re: Trouble with installboot
To: David Sieborger <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/15/2000 16:48:29
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:27:56AM +0200, David Sieborger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm installing NetBSD 1.4.2 on a SPARCclassic, which used to run Red
> Hat Linux.  I've created a disklabel, and successfully run the
> install.sh script from a diskless boot.  However, when I try to boot

Make sure that your partitions start and end on cylinder boundary.
The sparc firmware won't work properly if this is not the case
(and of course the boot loader uses prom's routines to read the disk).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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