[Sunhelp] Sol7 install problems on LX

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Sun Jan 9 17:04:06 CST 2000


On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Gilles Melanson wrote:

> There is only one scsi disk in the box.  c0t0d0s0 is the / partition, s1
> is the swap.  I didn't even break out the different portions.  I'm trying
> to boot off of disk0:a to no avail.

This is why.  Older Suns (pre-Ultra) can't reliably boot off of a
partition larger than 2GB.  Really old PROMs have a limit of 1GB.

If you have a large disk, try carving it up into seperate partitions.

-James







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