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oozzzii n00b
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: Sparc Ultra 5 Install silo hangs on boot |
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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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arch4nge1 n00b
Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 57
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:21 am Post subject: |
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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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oozzzii n00b
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:46 am Post subject: |
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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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arch4nge1 n00b
Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 57
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:17 am Post subject: |
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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.
Cheers |
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Maedhros Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 5511 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo. _________________ No-one's more important than the earthworm. |
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oozzzii n00b
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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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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oozzzii n00b
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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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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