I'm not sure if this will help, but when I did installs on my UltraSparc I had
to delete the first partition and recreate it to get things to work. For you,
however, if you can't boot off the floppy this may not be the same problem. If
you're going to give it another try then I'd suggest recreating the first
partition on each disk. It seems that the distro cannot use block 0 and has to
start at block 1 in order to work. However, I've seen a posting here where
someone couldn't get it to work unless he used block 0, but that seems to be
the exception.
BTW, keep putting the string "sparc" in your subject line so that my filters
will catch it. Otherwise there's too much stuff to read that's not relevent to
sparc's.
Hope this helps.
Tom Korte
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> 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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