Craig Bartelloni wrote:
>
> what kind of filesytem is /
> if it is reiserfs i don't believe the system will boot from that it needs
> to be ext2 ....
Since the only install that appears to work is auto-install, I would have
expected it to use what would work for what it installs. Besides, I didn't see
any reference to reiserfs when partitioning; though I may have missed it...
Specifically, I get:
## boot:
##
## Cannot find /boot/vmlinuz (Unknown ext2 error)
##
## Image not found.... try again
If I change boot-device and boot-file to point to /boot/vmlinuz (this bypasses
SILO), I get:
## The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
Booting from floppy gives the same SILO failure.
Given the way I setup the filesystems (see below), does SILO get installed on
the drive currently specified in boot-device? If so, does SILO assUme that the
root partition will be on the same drive?
If I have the right info (damn Sun for making sd0=sd@3,0 and sd3=sd@0,0 :^P ),
the install looks like this:
Drive Sun SCSI Linux Contents
int/1GB sd0 sd@3,0 sda 1(/), 2(swap), 4(/home), 5(/usr/local)
ext/1.3GB sd3 sd@0,0 sdb 1(/usr)
with SILO on sdb. I'm no longer sure, but I suspect boot-device was set to
disk3 when I installed...
SILO appears to be unaware that /boot is on the other drive.
Looks like I'll have to re-install unless someone has an idea...
Pierre
> craig bartelloni
> Lucent Technologies
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote:
>
> > Got some time to try hydrogen-2 again on my old Sparc 2 (4/75)... after
> > re-downloading to correct a bad original ISO.
> >
> > I tried installing about a dozen times (GUI, expert, text, devel, workstation,
> > ...); each time all sorts of _random_ errors. It was so bad I suspected my
> > CDROM drive... until I decided to try an automatic install... Welllllll....!
> > Installed the 1st CD without error; could not install the 2nd because the system
> > would not allow me to eject the 1st.
> >
> > I thought to myself: "finally!!"...
> >
> > <SIGH> Now the system loads SILO from the HD; but can't find /boot/vmlinuz and
> > SILO does not seem to support L1-A or any other interrupt to get into the
> > loader...
> >
> > I have two 1GB HDs:
> > sda: /, swap, /home, /usr/local
> > sdb: /usr
> >
> > Any ideas how to get system to boot...?
> > Do I need to change any env. vars? boot-device? boot-file?
> > Should the boot-device be set to the drive with the root partition for SILO's
> > installation?
> > Other?
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> >
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