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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 7:20 pm    Post subject: Boot problems on Ultra 10 Reply with quote

While I had no problems booting off the 1.1 cd and installing the latest stage1 and bootstrap etc, I cannot seem to get the system to boot.

I have boot file system as hda1, root as hda2
I took the basic silo.conf file off the cdrom and changed the kernel name vmlinuz-2.4.20 and root file system to hda2

When silo boots, I get "Fatal error: Unable to open filesystem"
The boot file system is ext3

I am able to get the system to boot, if I type
1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda2
From the silo prompt.


Any ideas ?

Thanks


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had to put the raw path to my device as the prom sees it, to get it to work....

Code:

# Example of how can be silo.conf set up
partition = 3
root = /dev/hda3
timeout = 30
#password = __put_your_password_in_cleartext_here__
#restricted
default=linux

image = /vmlinux.gz
        root = /dev/hda3
        device=/pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0
        partition=1
        label = linux
        read-only


you exact system config may very though. Look at the device aliases that your prom uses.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi garlik42,

Could you paste your silo.conf file and give us an idea of how you have your paritions setup on this drive?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:26 pm    Post subject: simple problem my fault ... Reply with quote

my silo.conf file was in /boot
apparently the default location for silo is in /etc which is in a separate file system.
I had to use silo -c /boot/silo.conf

Now the system boots just fine.

Thanks for the clues!
Now on to getting my keyboard configured in X
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what version of X are you using? I've heard that several people are having keyboard issues with 4.3.0. I've been reluctant to upgrade bacuse of it, but I don't think that I should have many problems, because my keyboard and mouse are USB (SunBlade100) I just need to find the time to do it. (which includes the time of backing out if needed, I wish I could install two diff versions and then delete the other when I know the newer one works)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:09 pm    Post subject: Version of X Reply with quote

I am using the 4.2 X, I found some stuff on the net about getting the keyboard mapped correctly.
I now have everything I need to function running on the Ultra 10, now I will start fiddling with extras like sound. And actually getting some work done with the machine.
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