Good morning. After going back and repartitioning (after formatting, SILO install, etc), I am stuck at the following boot error. Note to self: Never repartition, no matter how many second thoughts I may have after a good nights sleep.
SILO on sda is grabbing the boot cycle and failing, of course, since I've repartitioned without reformatting (the install software said a reboot was required before formatting could take place). Ok, just now I tried the absurd: I typed "halt" at the SILO "boot:" prompt, and got an "ok"! So "boot floppy" is now happily loading. I will continue from this point, with the new partition style (this is the first time I've seen "Whole Disk"), and let y'all know what the final results are. Curt- Here was the entire boot message, because I already had pasted it into this email. ----- Boot device: /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],400000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: -v SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the disk. Send C Read error on block 851972 (tried 4096, got -1) Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error) Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf No config file loaded, you can boot just from this command line Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt E.g. /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;4/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4 or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of boot disk) You have `-v' string in your boot-file variable. This string doesn't contain valid arguments to SILO. Consider doing setenv boot-file. Anyway, SILO will continue as if there were no arguments in boot-file. boot: ls Your imagename `ls' and arguments `' have either wrong syntax, or describe a label which is not present in silo.conf Type `help' at the boot: prompt if you need it and then try again. boot: ----- -- "Wherever I go, everyone is a little bit safer because I am there. Wherever I am, anyone in need has a friend. Whenever I return home, everyone is happy I am there." ---The Warrior Creed, Robert L. Humphrey, USMC
