System only boots to openboot prompt

cdukes · n00b Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Tampa, FL

Howdy,
We have Gentoo installed on an E450 and for some reason, after the server was rebooted the other day, it will only boot up to the openboot prompt. When I try to boot disk it returns the following:

Boot device: disk File and args:
SIProgram terminated
{0} ok

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Thanks!

patrickbores · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:27 am Post subject:

EDIT: second.b is corrupt, not first.b, as previously stated.

Hello,

According to the diagram:

http://www.sparc-boot.org/images/bootchart.png

SILO is loading the first and second stages, but then choking because the second.b file is corrupted or incorrect. This is due to a version incompatibility. At least that was the case when this happened to me.

You've most likely updated your system, including SILO, which changed the second.b file. But after that update you didn't reinstall SILO to the boot block.

So, I suggest booting with the LiveCD, and running re-running silo (the latest version on your hard drive), telling it to install on the boot block.

Hope this helps,

Patrick
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cdukes · n00b Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Tampa, FL

Thank you so much! I'll give that a try :-)

astta · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6

Yeah! This is just what I needed!

Thanks guys.

astta

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