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appetitus
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 Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: [RESOLVED] first stage boot failure |
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Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.11, 256 MB memory installed
Boot device: disk0 File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
ok probe-scsi
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk QUANTUM ATLAS_V__9_SCA 0200149005550899 000218
000000000
000000000000000000000000000000
Target 6
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA XM6201TASUN32XCD110312/12/97
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If I use a recent LiveCD and boot via: gentoo root=/dev/sda1, it boots up with a few complaints. I've run silo -f (more than once) without any success. Previously, I ran a 2G SCA drive in the machine without problems, but this 9G drive must have a new wrinkle someplace.
a) Do I need a separate boot partition in the first 2G of drive space?
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fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8753 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 315 8753 8640512 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 u 0 29 29696 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 0 8753 8963072 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 u 29 315 292864 82 Linux swap
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b) What should be in /boot ?
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ll /boot/
total 6314
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 7 12:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jun 3 16:03 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Oct 27 2005 boot -> .
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Oct 27 2005 etc -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jun 7 12:37 fd.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jun 7 12:37 first.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jun 7 12:37 generic.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 Jun 7 12:37 ieee32.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1015650 Feb 22 12:22 initrd-genkernel-sparc64-2.4.32-sparc-r2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6992 Jun 7 12:37 isofs.b
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2851952 Feb 22 12:17 kernel-genkernel-sparc64-2.4.32-sparc-r2
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Oct 27 2005 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 Oct 27 2005 old.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66560 Jun 7 14:33 second.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2426 Jun 3 16:25 silo.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64369 Jun 7 12:37 silotftp.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jun 7 12:37 ultra.b
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2418341 Jun 3 15:50 vmlinux-2.4.32
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c) something wrong in silo.conf ?
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}cat /boot/silo.conf
partition = 2
root = /dev/sda1
timeout = 10
#
image = /boot/kernel-genkernel-sparc64-2.4.32-sparc-r2
label = 4.32-g
#
image = /boot/vmlinux-2.4.32
label = 4.32
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This was an install off the 2006.0 LiveCD, an emerge sync, then basic networking tools + my favorites added.
TIA
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appetitus
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a followup
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Boot device: disk0 File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f File and args:
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works, I decided to hack away and tried
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ok reset
Resetting ...
Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.11, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #8177085.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:7c:c5:bd, Host ID: 807cc5bd.
Boot device: disk0 File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
ok boot /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0:f File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.11
boot:
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Cannot find /boot/kernel-genkernel-sparc64-2.4.32-sparc-r2 (Unknown ext2 error)
Image not found.... try again
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which is an improvement, then
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Image not found.... try again
boot: 2/boot/vmlinux-2.4.32
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usually boots on serial, but seems to kernel panic on the sun keyboard (maybe a typo, since I cannot cut and paste).
So it appears that the boot alias is broken in the prom, and that silo still needs help. How do I fix the OBP, or upgrade it?
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appetitus
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: [RESOLVED] first stage boot failure |
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After it was clear that SILO was working fine, I solved the OBP problem this way:
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ok nvunalias disk0
ok nvalias disk0 /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0:f
ok nvstore
ok reset
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Now it hasn't automatically boot yet, but now "boot disk0" does work. Once I track down the default bootdisk and change it from disk to disk0, everything should be fine.
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