Bug 91769 – Differences beetween SPARC handbook and quickinstall guide

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2005-05-06 23:43:02 UTC]

The handbook states that the first partition on sparc32 and older sparc64 machines must be less than 2G of size, the quickinstall guide states less than 1G.

I'm currently installing my Sparcstation20 and followed the instructions within the handbook which leads to a non-bootable installation.

Can please someone from sparc@g.o verify that the only working maximum size for sparc32 machines is 1G, and what about sparc64 machines with old OBP versions? 1G or 2G maximum?

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-05-07 13:12:17 UTC]

Depends upon the PROM revision you're using. The limit can be 1GByte, 2GBytes or something like 137GBytes.

[Comment 2 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2005-05-09 01:30:16 UTC]

Any chance we can point our users to a list with PROM versions and the matching limit? i.e. is there such a list?

[Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-05-09 03:14:32 UTC]

There's no list that I'm aware of. Basically, all sun4u PROM revisions that are capable of booting linux have a high enough limit that you don't need to care about it, so it's only sun4[cdm] that might need to worry. And there, if you're unsure, then assume 1GByte.

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-07-18 02:59:22 UTC]

Can the sparc team propose a documentation change or mark this bug whatever it
needs to be marked as?

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-09-28 12:59:30 UTC]

I'll update the guide and harass whoever I need to harass to get the necessary
information :)

[Comment 6 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-10-02 10:18:42 UTC]

I've included Ciaran's information in the handbook (sun4[cdm] stuff). I believe
this should be sufficient; if not, just reopen.