[SunRescue] RedHat 6.2 install on a Sparc10/2xSM41

[Tom Borton]

Shaun,

I'm new to this, so this may not be the best response, but I have gone through a RH 6.2 install on a Sparc2, and I do know a couple of the things that caught me.

What are you using to partition the hard drive?  If you use Disk Druid to partition the drive, the Sun disk label isn't created and the drive won't mount.  In fact, /dev/sda doesn't even show up unless you use fdisk to create the disk label right after you low-level format the drive (I had to use a Solaris 7 CD to create the label and whole disk partition before /dev/sda was created for fdisk to find).

I also found that, at the end of installation, the anaconda package script had problems with my network configuration and crashed, but the error only showed up using the text install, not the GUI.  The GUI doesn't display a console.  I had to select packages by hand to exclude anaconda before the install completed.  And of course, SILO is the last thing run, so the drive wasn't bootable.

Hope this points you in the right direction?

Tom Borton


----- Original Message -----
Message: 5
From: "Shaun Landis" <slandis at plague.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:51:17 -0700
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Subject: [SunRescue] RedHat 6.2 install on a Sparc10/2xSM41
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

Hello,

I seem to have encountered some unexpected trouble installing RH6.2 on my
sparc. I'm installing over a serial line, and everything goes fine :

boot from floppy, select install method, enter network config, ftp site for
packages, partition disk

After partitioning, I do a couple other routine things, setup the root and a
user account, and then the install script turns up an error trying to mount
sda1 - "Error mounting sda1: Invalid argument", and everything dies, install
shuts down. Anyone else have any problems like this, or ideas on what this
might be? I've ruled out the drive being bad, I've tested it in several
machines. Any help would be appreciated.

Shaun Landis