From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kris Boulez <kris@belbone.be>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 09:45:53 +0000
Subject: Re: Install of silo fails on ultra-2
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Quoting David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com):
>    Date: 	Wed, 27 May 1998 11:07:38 +0200
>    From: Kris Boulez <kris@belbone.be>
> 
>    P.S. bootimage is tftp-ed and install via nfs mount.
> 
> I've seen this problem.  You can still salvage the installation by
> booting the tftpboot image with root=/dev/xxx where xxx is the root
> partition device.  Then once it is up, login as root and run
> "/sbin/silo" then you can reboot from the disk just fine.
> 
Booting with "boot net linux root=/dev/sda1" hangs at 


  Partition check:                                                              
   sda: sda1 sda2 sda4                                                          
  RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0                                    
  VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).                                          


Kris,
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Kris Boulez				kris@belbone.be