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woodm
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:23 pm    Post subject: Silo problems (I want to play too, but mine are different!) Reply with quote

When I try to boot my ultra10, after completing the install instructions, I get the following text:
Code:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk:a  File and args:
SILO boot:

Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...


And then it just sits there. To be honest, I really don't understand how silo works (I'm just barely confident that I get grub and now sparc does this to me!).


I will try and post all the revelant information here. Lemme know if I missed anything.

My partitions are as follows:
/dev/hda1 : /boot
/dev/hda2 : /
/dev/hda4 : swap
/dev/hda5 : /mnt/tmp_and_var
(I read Daniel Robbins' partitioning discussion and created a partition
/mnt/tmp_and_var. You will never guess what symlinks here!)
/dev/hda6 : /usr
(/home symlinks to /usr/home)



My silo.conf file is in both /etc and /boot and looks like this:
Code:

partition = 1
root = /dev/hda2
timeout = 15
image = /boot/vmlinux
label = linux

There was a BUNCH of crap in there before, but I commented ALL of it out. Should I have left some of it?

I made sure that my kernel is less than 3.6 megs
Code:

gentoo boot # ls -lh /boot/vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root   root      3.1M Aug 15 16:08 vmlinux



I really don't know what else to do, but then again, I don't understand what I'm typing when I made the silo.conf file. I will have to research it this weekend, but this forum is generally so fast that I don't have time to find TFM much less RTFM. ;-)

THANK YOU! (That was an advance on the thank you's. I promise more of them for responses. :-) )
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Weeve
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you try booting with the following command, does it get any farther?

Code:
linux video=atyfb:off
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woodm
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:33 am    Post subject: How do I do that? Reply with quote

How do I do that?

Is it a "boot linux video=atyfb:off"
thing, or do I type that somewhere else?

(It's Friday night, and I won't be into work until Monday morning.)
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You would do that the the SILO: prompt
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