[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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