Cannot open root device "hda1" Sun Ultra 10

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:05 am Post subject:

666threesixes666,

You must use the SILO boot loader on a SPARC system. Big chunks of grub and other boot loaders are written in x86 assembly code, which will neither build nor execute on a SPARC CPU.

Other SPARC based liveCDs are certainly good starting points for a Gentoo SPARC install.
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