On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Matt Herzog wrote:

> Hi Sparcers.
>
> I am trying to boot miniroot from my Debian swap
> partition and I am following the instructions
> to the letter from the:
> ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/sparc/INSTALL.html
> page. The PROM insists that the file is not executable, so I
> ran a chmod +x in miniroot.fs before I did:
> dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rsd0b bs=4k conv=sync
> This did not help. I got the same error message.

?

Why must you set the execute bit anyway?

I assume you ran dd while Debian did not use the swap partition, i.e.
rebooted into single user mode, like boot -s, not simply shutdown now,
unless you can unconfigure swap devices in Debian.

How did you boot from the swap partition?
Did you use something like: boot sd(0,0,1)

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