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cheungming
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 7:26 pm    Post subject: silo error on ultra 80 Reply with quote

i install 1.4rc3 on a ultra80. my partitions are
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sda3 /
/dev/sda4 /home
i put my vmlinuz as /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
but when i use silo to boot. it tell me can not open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 and "unknown ext2 error".

does anyone see this before?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You might need to put your silo.conf on the /boot partition

What I do is this

Put my silo.conf in /boot/etc/silo.conf

then run silo as follows

silo -C /boot/etc/silo.conf

hTH,
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i try u method.
i put silo.conf under /boot. and run silo -C /boot/silo.conf

or

I put my vmlinuz-2.4.220 under / and run silo -C /etc/silo.conf after modifying silo.conf

still same error, can not find /xx/vmlinuz-2.4.20 and unknow ext2 error.
and everytime i reboot, it saids /dev/sda3 not succ unmounted , need fsck. so i guess it is accessed when silo.
so what's wrong? it is related to silo or my ext2fs? i include ext2 in my kernel, but it seems not find kernel file and read it yet.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you haven't already, I'd check out the booting portion of the UltraLinux FAQ located at
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html

Let me know if that helps at all.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thx so much, i will read it and try to post my test result soon.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i solve my problem. i modify the silo.conf and set the partition=3 (my previoud value is 4). in fact, i am not quite understand the meaning about this.
then i put my vmlinux under / and then silo can find it. but silo reports size exceeds error. i forget the exact msg. then i recompile it by set more as module and new vmlinux is around 2.5m. then it can boot now. now i have network ready. but the text screen seems only occupy part of the screen. does anybody know how to solve this?

thx so much for the hints u gave to me
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 5:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had the same issue today.

It seems a separate /boot partition is NOT advisable on Sparc. There is lots of handiwork needed to make it work.

The documentation will be updated soon to advise on this issue.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes, i can boot from / while can not boot from /boot. maybe there are some trick in silo.conf we do not know.
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