Subject: Re: install fun
To: Hirohisa Taniguchi <hiro.tanig@lab.ntt.co.jp>
From: Ian Main <imain@gtk.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/21/2001 17:30:01
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:55:33AM +0900, Hirohisa Taniguchi wrote:
> 
> > > I'm trying to install onto an ultra 10, which already has solaris on it on
> > > the first HD, and I'm installing onto the second.  So, I dd the miniroot
> > > (or ramdisk from 1.5) onto one of the partitions on the new disk, and boot it,
> > > but then it asks for a root device, and doesn't list anything that looks to me like
> > > a ramdisk etc., and there's no mention of this in the install docs.
> 
> So what was your workaround to solve the problem?
> Or did you install via Solaris?

Instead of putting the miniroot on a parition on the 2nd drive, I put it on the swap
of the first, and then it just all magically worked.  I couldn't get it to find
the rest of the miniroot on the 2nd drive.

Ian