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chris_andrew
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:07 pm    Post subject: Can't boot after install. Reply with quote

Hi, all.

I've just got through installing on my unsupported Sparc Station 20. All seemed to go well.

When I rebooted, I got the boot prompt, then:

Cannot find /vmlinux (unknown ext2 error)

I tried to use another available boot image called _old_, but I got the same error.

Do I need to use my install CD as a rescue, and check the fs, somehow?

Many thanks,

Chris

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two reasons for this error:

1. wrong /boot/grub/menu.lst
2. false installation of grub itself
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The installed package was SILO, not grub, I believe.

Thanks,

Chris.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember there being some setup weirdness you had to account for if /boot was not on the same partition as /

somthing like
# silo -C /boot/silo.conf

I'm sure it WAS in the handbook - have a look at that and also make sure that your config does indeed specify the correct locations of the kernel and root partitions.

finally to fix it - you will need to boot from the gentoo CD again, then chroot to your install (remember to mount the /boot partition too) and fix it up.

Good luck
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheers, Toady.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chris, remember that there is a limit (< 2 gigabytes) on the size of the / partition for sparc systems with old obp versions.

If that is what is bothering you, then make a stage4 tarball of your disk (exluding /dev, /proc and whatever else you may not need; mount additional storage over nfs if required), repartition the disk accordingly and afterwards restore your stage4 onto the newly partitioned disk.

Although sparc is not officially supported anymore :( the old handbooks are still around, iirc the latest one that still mentioned this arch was the 2006.0 (cf. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-sparc.xml).

Good luck.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there is a profile for 2006.1 for 32-bit spark hardware - what i don't know is at what point the software versions stop on that profile.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed, the last version of the Gentoo Handbook to cover the sparc architecture is the 2006.1 edition, cf. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.1/handbook-sparc.xml).
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