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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:29 am    Post subject: Sparc Ultra 5 Install silo hangs on boot Reply with quote

Could someone help me find what I'm doing wrong?

I'm able to complete all the steps for install as described in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-quickinstall.xml but when I reboot in to the new system silo hangs.

Things look normal during reboot until it gets to the silo prompt, only the letters "SI" slowly appear. The error message that appears after a couple of minutes is "Program terminated" next I'm back at the ok prompt. The same happens if I try to boot the partition manually, e.g.:
boot disk:f /boot/image

About my setup:
Using Installer Gentoo SPARC Linux Version 2004.2
Ultra 5 UltraSPARC-IIi 400MHz
OpenBoot 3.25
256 RAM
20GB disk:
/dev/hda1 SunOS8 root
/dev/hda2 SunOS swap
/dev/hda4 SunOS home
/dev/hda5 SunOS9 root
/dev/hda6 Linux (Gentoo) root
/dev/hda7 Linux swap

silo.conf:
partition = 6
root = /dev/hda6
timeout = 5
image = /boot/image
label = Gentoo

Used conbinations of /sbin/silo -f -u|-U -C thinking that silo is the problem but I'm not so sure any more. Thank you for the help.
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.sparc-boot.org/how.html

Sounds like something wrong with second.b, perhaps rebuild the kernel ? I'm not all that experienced with SILO, but afaik, make sure the silo.conf file is in /etc.

Hope that helps.

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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the link..I visited that site but missed that diagram, very helpfull but I'm still not sure how to correct my problem. I have tried two kernel builds already, development-sources (linux-2.6.6) and sparc-sources (linux-2.4.26-sparc-r2).

I did notice something strange though, the symlink /usr/src/linux still points to /usr/src/linux-2.6.6 and not /usr/src/linux-2.4.26-sparc-r2 which is the last one I built.

I'm considering going through the steps listed at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml?part=1&chap=10 and hopefully that will give better results. Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the feedback!
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I do suggest you follow the Gentoo Handbook as I did it myself using that on an Ultra 10 and it worked fine for me.

Hope you have the same experience as I did.

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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2005 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Followed the handbook and after rebooting I come back to the same problem... this time with kernel-2.4.30.

Giving up at the moment, next time I'll make sure to try on a single boot system and one who's IDPROM battery hasn't died. Think those two things may be complicating things a bit :(

Thank you all!
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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found the problem...it was the boot loader.

It seems that /boot wether as its own partition or if hanging of /<ROOT> has to be withing the first number of sectors in the drive (<6G?). I moved the partition to the first slice and the boot process completed.
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