[SunHELP] Jumpstart Installation.

[bran tregare]

Um, doesn't the / slice need to be 2 Gig or smaller on a sparc 10? (I could 
be wrong)

At 03:01 PM 10/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Greg,
>
>I do not have exact mesage handy. But it is very similar to this:
>
>ok boot disk1
>
>Boot device: /sbus/esp at 0,800000/sd at 3,0   File and args:
>
>bootblk: can't find the boot program
>
>Program terminated
>
>In the Jumpstart profile, I have
>partitioning explicit
>filesys c0t3d0s0 4000 /
>
>Is there any problem? It is a 18GB disk, what is the appropriate way to
>partition? Thanks a lot!
>
>Andrew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg [mailto:gonufer at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:42 PM
>To: Meng, Andrew
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Jumpstart Installation.
>
>
>On 10/30/01 10:50 AM, Meng, Andrew wrote:
>
> > We  just attached a new 18G disk to a SS10 machine and installed  OS from
>a
> > Intel Solaris machine. When rebooting after installation, the bootblk can
> > find the boot device on target 3 SCSI disk.
> >
> > I realize I did not specify the boot_device profile keyword  in Jumpstart
> > profile. When I run probe-scsi, I find it is attached to target 3 with 0-7
> > disk units and the current boot device alias is indeed pointing to target
>3
> > disk. Why it can find boot device?  Did I miss something?  I installed /
>on
> > c0t3d0s0. How can I manually update the EEPROM manually without
>reinstalling
> > the whole thing again?
>
>
>What is the *exact* error?  If any part of the root filesystem extends
>past the first 2GB of the disk then the system may not be able to boot.
>   But that's different than not being able to open the disk at all--- in
>this case the bootblk loads, maybe even the secondary boot loads, and
>then files aren't found.  On pre-sun4u machines the root filesystem must
>be completely contained within the first 2GB of the disk.  The size
>doesn't matter as much as the location (though a root filesystem larger
>than 2GB obviously won't be able to meet the location requirement).
>
>-greg
>
>
>
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