[SunHELP] What am I missing... (SS/5 Solaris install won't boot after install)

[Ken Hansen]

ARGH! (slaps own forehead)

I knew that...

Really, I did. That has got to be it - the one unusual thing I did was make
a large / (root) directory - I'll fire up the install process again, but
that has got to be it, it makes sense.

Greg, thanks alot!

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg" <gonufer at yahoo.com>
To: "Ken Hansen" <n2vip at bellatlantic.net>
Cc: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] What am I missing... (SS/5 Solaris install won't boot
after install)


> > So, I'm sitting here, trying to get an SS/5-110 ready to ship, and I'm
> > trying to install an OS (Solaris 7), but after the install completes, I
get
> > the following - any ideas?
>
> On a sun4m machine the entire root filesystem must be 2GB or less and also
> must physically reside within the first 2GB of the disk.  Did you create a
> root file system larger than 2GB or perhaps place it somewhere other than
> the beginning of the disk?
>
> Sometimes an installation on a misconfigured root filesystem will work if
> all of the files necessary to boot get installed in the right areas of the
> disk.  The risk is that any change could result in an unbootable system if
> the important files get rearranged on disk (restoring kernel modules from
> backup, applying kernel patches, etc).
>
> -greg
>