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Drunkula
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Location: Denton, TX - USA
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 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject: Boot problem - new install on Ultra 2E |
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Just did a new install of Gentoo on my Ultra2. I had it up and running before but installed Solaris 10 to just to check it out. Anyhow, now that I've reinstalled (got to the point of installing SILO and rebooted) I get this error:
| Code: | Warning: Fcode sequence resulted in a net stack depth change of 1
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable |
Here is silo.conf:
| Code: | partition = 1
root = /dev/sda1
timeout = 50
image = /boot/image
label = Gentoo |
The partition table as it is:
| Code: | Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8635 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2560 8635 6220800 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 u 0 512 524288 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 0 8635 8842240 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda8 512 2560 2097152 83 Linux native
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And fstab:
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/dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 noatime 0 2
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0
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Here is the contents of /boot:
| Code: | livecd root # ls -lh /boot/
total 5.8M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 451K Feb 28 19:50 System.map
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Feb 27 07:53 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0K Feb 28 19:11 fd.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 28 19:11 first.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.0K Feb 28 19:11 generic.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 Feb 28 19:11 ieee32.b
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.6M Feb 28 19:50 image
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.1K Feb 28 19:11 isofs.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.5K Feb 28 19:16 old.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64K Feb 28 19:51 second.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Feb 28 19:49 silo.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62K Feb 28 19:11 silotftp.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Feb 28 19:11 ultra.b
livecd root #
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Running silo -C /boot/silo.conf says /boot/silo.conf appears to be valid.
In OBP printenv shows my boot-device to be:
| Code: | /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd0,0:a disk net
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Or at least that's what it looks like from printenv boot-device. What have I missed? Incidentally the kernel is from sparc-sources-2.4.29.
[FOLLOW UP]
Somebody mentioned that my swap partition appears to overlap the wholedisk partition since both start at zero? Not sure how that happened but I will redo the swap partition when I get home to see if that makes a difference.
[FOLLOW UP #2]
No change after changing the swap partition. Going to doublecheck my kernel config and recompile.  |
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Drunkula
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Location: Denton, TX - USA
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | A BSD/SUN type disklabel can describe 8 partitions, the third of which should be a `whole disk' partition. Do not start a partition that actually uses its first sector (like a swap partition) at cylinder 0, since that will destroy the disklabel. |
Read this elsewhere. Not sure how I ended up with the swap starting at 0 the same as the whole disk. Guess I'll just start over and count my losses as experience gained.
[FOLLOW UP #3]
Nevermind. I nuked all partitions and recreated the Sun disk label then started from scratch. The box is now up and running, though stage3 instead of stage1. I think I'll live...  |
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