SUMMARY: Bootblk Problem.

From: Eric Pinnell (epinnell@speedy.sna.com)
Date: Tue Nov 25 1997 - 10:37:18 CST

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My original question:

> Hi, I have a Sparc 5/85 with a new 4GB Seagate drive. I am trying
> to install Solaris 2.6 on it. After the installation is through the
> machine tries to reboot, it stops and gives me this error:
>
> Bootblk: Can't find the boot program
> Program Terminated.
>
> What is going on here? Please help! I will summarize

        The what was causing this error was that I was making my root
partition 4GB. It seems that the older systems do not support a root
partition greater than 2GB.
        Thanks to the following for their prompt replies:
        Matthew Stier
        Bismark Espinoza
        Russ Poffenberger
        Jim Harmon
        Garry Robbins
        Rick Reineman
        Ron Nguyen
        Casper Dik
        and Mike Frisch

-Eric

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