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ez-prey n00b
Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 11
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject: yasi ( Yet Another Silo Issue ) reiserfs |
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Hi,
So I go thru the whole documented install, only to find at the silo conf that silo "doesn't support Reiserfs" - after running /sbin/silo! Not in documentation?
I'm new to Gentoo, is there a work around? Or should I start over and use ext3 or ext2?
Thanks,
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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If you have a seperate /boot partition, you can reformat it with ext2 or 3, re-emerge silo, setup your config again and copy the kernel over. Otherwise yes you'll have to start over.2 |
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ez-prey n00b
Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 11
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Weeve wrote: | If you have a seperate /boot partition, you can reformat it with ext2 or 3, re-emerge silo, setup your config again and copy the kernel over. Otherwise yes you'll have to start over.2 |
cool... i thought maybe just the /boot part was the prob....
Looking forward to Gentoo....! |
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rwgeorge Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 87 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana - USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Wow...so, start over...all the way? Maybe that should have been in the instructions sooner. After going through this 4 times to get to this stage, I am very frustrated. How can I help the documentation for installing on a SPARC? The current documentation is not consistent, and could use a lot of improvement.
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Bob |
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labrador Guru
Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 316
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: If 2.6 kernel, stay away from reiserfs |
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I've read it here before, and I've had the first had experience.
Reiserfs with the 2.6 kernel on the sparc is iffy.
My / partition was set up as reiserfs with the 2.6.6 kernel
in December. We had a power outage and after that there
were strange errors while emerging stuff. I ran the reiserfs
version of fsck from a Live CD and it said there were errors
too serious for it to fix. It suggested rebuild-tree. I did that,
and it got to stage 3 before giving a bus error (rebooted Live CD,
and same results again).
I restored the system from a full disk image, and then recreated the
/ partition as ext3. The system has worked flawlessly
since. |
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Toady Apprentice
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 161 Location: South Wales, UK
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: If 2.6 kernel, stay away from reiserfs |
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labrador wrote: |
Reiserfs with the 2.6 kernel on the sparc is iffy.
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I would agree there... and to be honest I am not bothering with it under 2.4 either !
labrador wrote: |
I restored the system from a full disk image, and then recreated the
/ partition as ext3. The system has worked flawlessly
since. |
For reasons like this I to have moved to EXT3 on the sun systems. TBH I have never had a problem with Reiser on PC hardware.. I hated EXT2 (we were having some bad brown outs at the time and the system started eating the file systems) but EXT3 seems to be a good way to go. _________________ Toady
Gentoo Laptop
3.1.10-gentoo-r1, Intel Core 2 Duo (32bit)
Gnome on the desk, Intel in the box, on-board everything, but it all works! |
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rwgeorge Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 87 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana - USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I wiped the partition table and am starting over...As much as I really wanted to do Reiser, I guess I'll go twith ext3. I am going to document my session this time so I can help others when they get here. Thanks!
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Bob |
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Section 4.d of the Installation Handbook does recommend against using reiserfs.
However it does not mention compatibility problems with SILO. |
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toyz n00b
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Idaho USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for giving a reason why I should stay away from reiserfs on sparc. This helps and hurts... I was running reiser on my old Alpha Multia in 2001.
I'm not very far along, I've noticed that the sparc handbook seems out of date in some places - for that reason I was thinking the reiser warning might be "old news."
Question: What are the ramifications of NOT going with a Sun disk label? I don't care about read/write from Solaris. But will SILO know how to boot something with a PC partition table? This could be in the docs...
Doc updates: (?)
Don't use Reiserfs -- here's why...
You must do Sun disk label -- here's why... |
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toyz n00b
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Idaho USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: |
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I don't want to be picky here... but what is /usr/bin/[ on the stage3 tarball? |
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toyz n00b
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Idaho USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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toyz wrote: |
Question: What are the ramifications of NOT going with a Sun disk label? I don't care about read/write from Solaris. But will SILO know how to boot something with a PC partition table? This could be in the docs...
Doc updates: (?)
You must do Sun disk label -- here's why... |
I'll answer my own question. Of course I had to try with a PC partition. Now I'm rsyncing my gentoo off to another box so I can repartition and drop it back on.
The answer is: SILO must land in a place that the Sun OpenBoot stuff jumps to. Without using Sun disk label on your disk, it apparently doesn't know how to jump to SILO.
Code: | Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 400MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.25, 256 MB (50 ns) memory installed, Serial #16330480.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:f9:2e:f0, Host ID: 80f92ef0.
Rebooting with command: boot
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Boot device: disk:h File and args:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot
Can't open boot device
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Boot device: disk:h File and args:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Evaluating: boot
Can't open boot device
ok
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is more that Sun machines typically have problems booting from systems with no whole disk partition. This is a function of OBP and what it is looking for by default.
You might be able to create a new NVRAM alias to point to the exact partition that SILO is installed on to get around this, but it's a guess so if you're feeling adventerous... |
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