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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:15 am    Post subject: booting problem on ultra 5 Reply with quote

here is what i got when booting.
Code:
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2
Warning: unable to open initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

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/dev/sda1     /ext2  boot     
/dev/sda2     /ext3  swap
/dev/sda4     /ext3  user
/dev/sda5     /ext3  var
/dev/sda6     /ext3  root


is it boot having ext2 and others ext3 causing the problem?[/code]
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Post your silo.conf so we can have a look at it.
Shouldnt be a problem mixing ext2 and ext3 but I note that it is not recommended to have a separate /boot partition for sparc because it complicates the bootloader configuration.
Also what kernel are you running?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i reinstalled(third time) please help me out on my new set up! if theres need for more infomation i can post it!
my new setup:
Code:

/dev/sda1     /ext3  linux native     
/dev/sda2     /ext3  swap

my silo.conf:
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partition=1
root = /dev/hda1
timeout = 150
image = /vmlinux
             label = linux
image = /vmlinux
             label = old
image = /vmlinux.live
             label = live
image = /vmlinux.elf
             label = elf

other = 1
            bootblock = 4/bootold.b
            label = sunos


my fstab:
Code:

/dev/hda1                /boot                     ext3              defaults,noatime              1 1
/dev/hda1                /                           ext3              noatime                          0 1
/dev/hda2                none                     swap             sw                                  0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom            iso9660         noauto,user                     0 0
/dev/fd0                   /mnt/floppy            auto              noauto                            0 0
none                        /proc                      proc              defaults                           0 0
none                        /dev/shm                tmpfs             nodev,nosuid,noexec       0 0
none                        /proc/openprom      openpromfs     defaults                          0 0
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok .... if you have a standard Ultra 5 then it has an ide disk not a scsi one so your partitions should be /dev/hda* rather than /dev/sda* .
I assume that you didnt post the full fdisk printout and that the 3rd partition is the sun disk label.

Also I think that in silo.conf the image tag should be /boot/vmlinux rather than just /vmlinux

With the setup you have described fstab will not need a separate entry for /boot since it is on the same partition as / and you cant mount a partition twice!!

The gentoo handbook sparc version is really good but it can be a bit confusing if you are not too familiar with the ide scsi thing.

If you need to do another install I suggest following the handbook fairly closely remembering to substitute /dev/hda for any instance of /dev/sda that you see.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sorry,i meamt hda not sda. I can't copy and paste from the screen, so i my bad! thinks so much riposte for helping, i'll get back to it after school :(
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh, :( now my fourth timeo of installing it, now i have /boot/boot ? isn't it suppost to be only /boot can i just cp /boot/boot/* /boot/
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