Help needed with Sparcstation 20

[mark acierno <acierno@pocketdvm.com>]

Hello all, I just acquired a Sparcstation 20 Dual Ross 100 mhz 384MB. The 
unit came with a 4.5 and 2.1M drive as well as a copy of "red hat" linux 
(5.2) on CDrom. I partitioned the drives as follows:
dev/sda
device Flag	start	end		Id	system
sda1			1	200		83	linux
sda2		u	201	299		83	linux native
sda3			0	1007	5	 whole disk
sda4			300	546		83	linux

sdb
sdb1 		0	986		83 	Linux
sbd2		U	986	1015	82	swap
Sdb3		0	1016	5 	whole disk

when I install "red hat" all goes well until it is time to boot the system 
then I get an error the the
boot device: / iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0 File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.

So I downloaded the debian images off the net (went quite quickly on dec 24) 
and the install process goes flawlessly - until its time to boot then I get 
the same message. I must be doing something wrong that is obvious, I am not 
sure about the third partition being "whole disk" but I think I have read 
that this is necessary and fdisk seems to give this automatically.



Anyone have a thought??


mark acierno