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tomr
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 6:36 pm    Post subject: swapon segfaults and then a silo problem Reply with quote

Sparcstation 20, 224 megs of RAM, 4.x gig SCSI hard drive, and an external SCSI cd drive.

During the install, when I do a swapon /dev/sda2 it immediately segfaults.

Read here that this is ok, so I kept going and installed the rest of Gentoo.

After the install, when it boots, instead of SILO, I get SProgram Terminated and I'm stuck at a boot prompt. Doing some Google'ing I found some other examples of the 'SProgram Terminated', but either the poster of the problem didn't find/get an answer, or the answer they got didn't work in this case.

Kinda stuck.

This same machine was running Mandrake 7.1 for Sparc just fine before I put (or tried to) Gentoo on it, so I'm pretty sure that its not a hardware problem.


Anyone?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This one (or one like it) I went through, too. In my case, I believe it
was a problem with having built a kernel from a version which did not
work too well. I am currently running

Linux dragonfly.inforead.com 2.4.21-sparc-r1 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25 14:11:11 UTC 2003 sparc sun4m Texas Instruments, Inc. - SuperSparc-(II) GNU/Linux

which is very stable. Another way to get this problem is not to have
/boot completely installed (this happened on a different system after
a silo update). The solution to that was:


  • Make sure silo files (first.b, second.b, etc) are all in place,
  • /boot/silo.conf is set up right;
  • Do 'cd /boot; silo -C /boot/silo.conf -f' (to force a good
    boot block to be written.)


It was the last step which cured my problem.
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