From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:24:20 +0000 Subject: Re: SILO problems Message-Id: <498DDFE4.4020105@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <498D413B.2060009@neb.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <498D413B.2060009@neb.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On 2009-02-07 at 5:32:52 -0500, David Miller wrote: > I notice that I have none of those funny flags set, and my > boot partition starts at zero and is of type "1" or Sun partition > type "Boot". > > Perhaps one of those two things makes a difference. Your boot partition needs to start on 0, or silo can't be loaded by the OBP. Hit this the hard way debugging the Fedora installer. :) ~spot