[SunHELP] What am I missing... (SS/5 Solaris install won't boot after install)

[Michael Karl]

am 20.05.2001 14:04 Uhr schrieb Ken Hansen unter n2vip at bellatlantic.net:

> ARGH! (slaps own forehead)
> 
> I knew that...
> 
> Really, I did. That has got to be it - the one unusual thing I did was make
> a large / (root) directory - I'll fire up the install process again, but
> that has got to be it, it makes sense.
> 
> Greg, thanks alot!
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg" <gonufer at yahoo.com>
> To: "Ken Hansen" <n2vip at bellatlantic.net>
> Cc: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] What am I missing... (SS/5 Solaris install won't boot
> after install)
> 
> 
>>> So, I'm sitting here, trying to get an SS/5-110 ready to ship, and I'm
>>> trying to install an OS (Solaris 7), but after the install completes, I
> get
>>> the following - any ideas?
>> 
>> On a sun4m machine the entire root filesystem must be 2GB or less and also
>> must physically reside within the first 2GB of the disk.  Did you create a
>> root file system larger than 2GB or perhaps place it somewhere other than
>> the beginning of the disk?
>> 
>> Sometimes an installation on a misconfigured root filesystem will work if
>> all of the files necessary to boot get installed in the right areas of the
>> disk.  The risk is that any change could result in an unbootable system if
>> the important files get rearranged on disk (restoring kernel modules from
>> backup, applying kernel patches, etc).
>> 
>> -greg
>> 
> 
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Your problem is really your big root-partition.
I got the same problem 1 year ago.
Make a smaller root-partition and it will work.

Michael