View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
snipah9 n00b
Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 5
|
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject: SILO magic 2GB boundary problem on SS10 (sun4m) |
|
|
Ok, at my wits end, which means the solution is probably fairly simple.
I get "Fatal error: Your /boot/second.b is located above the magic 2GB boundary from the start of the disk. Please move it down so that SILO first stage loader can load it." when I go to run silo with:
"silo -C /boot/silo.conf"
Let me give some specs on my partitions:
/dev/sda1 = 64meg boot partition mounts at /boot. (ext2 FS)
/dev/sda2 = 512meg swap
/dev/sda3 = "Whole Disk" Sun disk label deal. (This is a 4GB disk, btw)
/dev/sda4 = 3.5GB root partition at / (ext3 FS)
Now, I would like to mention that my /boot partition (sda1) was created using the _last_ 64MB of cylinders on the disk, which _should_ put it well below the 2GB "magic" boundary, right? So I thought. How do I correct this problem so I can boot my new kernel from disk rather than the generic from gentoo cd? I bet you sparc64 guys don't have this problem do you? |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
|
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The boot partition needs to be inside the first 2GB of the drive. If it's over this, no matter the size of the partition, it will not be able to boot from it. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|