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zaanpenguin
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The plot thickens:
After some hours of messing around, I've learned how I can make a tftp image of a kernel. Weirdly enough, I can boot my self-made Linux kernel with TFTP !!
So:
1) TFTP-booting a SUN flash image fails
2) TFTP-booting my own Linux kernel works
3) disk-booting my own system fails
4) cd-booting a Gentoo LiveCD works
Does this give any clues/hints for someone?
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| zaanpenguin wrote: | The plot thickens:
After some hours of messing around, I've learned how I can make a tftp image of a kernel. Weirdly enough, I can boot my self-made Linux kernel with TFTP !!
So:
1) TFTP-booting a SUN flash image fails
2) TFTP-booting my own Linux kernel works
3) disk-booting my own system fails
4) cd-booting a Gentoo LiveCD works
Does this give any clues/hints for someone? |
so, in other words, the only thing that doesn't work is the SILO that's on your disk. Have you tried downgrading your SILO package? this may just be a SILO bug that only effects people with this this new OBP...
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zaanpenguin
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| jbwillia wrote: | | zaanpenguin wrote: | The plot thickens:
After some hours of messing around, I've learned how I can make a tftp image of a kernel. Weirdly enough, I can boot my self-made Linux kernel with TFTP !!
So:
1) TFTP-booting a SUN flash image fails
2) TFTP-booting my own Linux kernel works
3) disk-booting my own system fails
4) cd-booting a Gentoo LiveCD works
Does this give any clues/hints for someone? |
so, in other words, the only thing that doesn't work is the SILO that's on your disk. Have you tried downgrading your SILO package? this may just be a SILO bug that only effects people with this this new OBP... |
Yes, I have! And to no avail  Someone on the SPARC mailing lists advised me to do so.
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jbwillia
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zaanpenguin: have you tried setting in your silo.conf file?
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: Got It!!! |
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My problem was that I was trying to run software raid1 and (as the install docs recommend) I did not have separate boot and root partitions. This was a problem because the boot partitition on a sparc cannot be raided. This didn't compute with me because I figured since a partition on either drive can be mounted read-only without using the raid (md) device that it would work, but it does not. I can only ascertain that the raid array interferes with the boot block. Anyways, Once I reparttiioned to have a separate boot partition as the first partition on the drive (and not raided) SILO magically started loading; well, anyone doing this, keep in mind you will also need to put your silo.conf in your boot partition and run silo giving it the ` -C /boot/silo.conf -f ' options as the silo.conf has to be located on the same partiton as the boot directory. Unfortunately, my problems are not completely over though because I am now getting the "fast access MMU miss" error after SILO loads the kernel image into memory. Hopefully this will be fixed when I re-emerge silo and play around with my silo.conf. Anyways, good luck to anyone else who attempts software raid1 on the sparc.
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Colonel Paneek
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: *Desperate* SUN won't boot anymore |
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| zaanpenguin wrote: | | I upgraded my OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 and now my SUN won't boot anymore. Whatever I try at the 'ok' prompt has no effect, it keeps saying 'The file just loaded does not appear to be executable'. |
I got that when I tried to boot a Gentoo partition on an Ultra 10. I thought that /dev/hda8 would be disk0:h but it was disk0:f that worked. |
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