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liSurfer
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 Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:56 am Post subject: Silo Alternatives |
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has anyone emerged lilo or grub with an ultrasparc??
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liSurfer
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Whenever I try to emerge I get this response, and I took the keyword entry out of /etc/make.conf to see what would happen as well to no avail.
'all ebuilds that could statisfy "lilo" have been masked.
!!!Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
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bazik
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LILO and GRUB dont have support for Sparc.
SILO is the only bootmanager you can use on Sparc for booting Linux. |
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liSurfer
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Hmm... Thats certainly a dilemma. So I have two choices now to use Gentoo. 1) is to figure out why it can't read the boot block of the ultra.b file in /boot.
2) is to get the latest stable release of SILO and hope it generates a legitimate ULTRA.B file for use.
After these two I'm stuck.. Is it possible to boot from floppy on a Sparc??
TIA,
Ryan
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liSurfer
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Hmm... Thats certainly a dilemma. So I have two choices now to use Gentoo. 1) is to figure out why it can't read the boot block of the ultra.b file in /boot.
2) is to get the latest stable release of SILO and hope it generates a legitimate ULTRA.B file for use.
After these two I'm stuck.. Is it possible to boot from floppy on a Sparc??
TIA,
Ryan
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Weeve
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes floppy booting is an option, but only for sparcstations and the ultra 1. Other systems have bugs in the firmware that prevent this. |
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Ferris
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How did you set up /boot (or your boot partition?) The following should
get you working:
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# If necessary...
mount -o rw /boot
cd /boot
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# If necessary...
cp /path/to/silo.conf .
emerge silo
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# Now, you are in /boot, and
# ls *.b
# should look something like
lacewing boot # ls *.b
1 cd.b 1 first.b 1 ieee32.b 8 old.b 60 silotftp.b
1 fd.b 1 generic.b 7 isofs.b 62 second.b 1 ultra.b
#
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# If necessary
cp /path/to/vmlinux .
# (Or whatever you called your kernel)
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# Now, NECESSARY:
silo -C /boot/silo.conf -f
#
# And, for comparison, here is how my sorking silo.conf starts out:
#
#
lacewing boot # more silo.conf
# SILO config file
#
# If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash,
# restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option
# restricted.
#passwd=bootpwd
#restricted
# default="gentoo-2.4.21"
default="semctl-2.4.21-SMP"
timeout=100
partition=1
#append="video=sbusfb:off"
read-only
# If /boot is a separate partition, remove /boot from the image path
#image=/boot/vmlinuz
image=/vmlinuz-2.4.21-r1-SMP
label="semctl-2.4.21-SMP"
root=/dev/sda4
image=/vmlinuz-2.4.21-SMP
label="gentoo-2.4.21"
root=/dev/sda4
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