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brundage Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 138
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject: Installing from a swap partition |
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Hi. I have a sparc system that I'd like to install without a CD. I can boot the install-sparc64-minimal-2005.1.iso image off a swap partition, but the system wants to mount / from the cdrom.
Code: | {3} ok boot disk1:b
Resetting ...
screen not found.
Can't open input device.
Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output.
Sun Enterprise 420R (4 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.23, 3072 MB memory installed, Serial #16244511.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:a7:f:1, Host ID: 80a70f10.
Rebooting with command: boot disk1:b
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@1,0:b File and args:
SILO
// Welcome to Gentoo SPARC Linux //
// Version 2005.1 //
boot: gentoo-2.4 initrd=/boot/gentoo-2.4.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs
Loading initial ramdisk....
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Code: | VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>> Loading modules v
>> Making tmpfs for /newroot
>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
>> No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices...
>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
>> Attempting to mount CD:- /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
!! Could not find CD to boot, something else needed!
>> Determining root device...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell...
boot() ::
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I'm not too familiar with SILO. Any help?
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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The LiveCD doesn't expect to be running from something else other than a... well... CD
Use netboot. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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Ferris Retired Dev
Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 426 Location: N. Virginia (USA)
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