Hi Nathan, Thank you for answering my questions. I followed every step you told me but it didn't work. Running 'silo -r /boot' gives me the following error:
Fatal error: cannot open second stage loader /boot/second.b I have the following partitions: sda1 /boot 10MB sda2 / 2GB sda3 Whole Disk sda4 swap 512M sda5 /var 4GB sda6 /home 10G Here's the content of my silo.conf partition=1 image=1/vmlinuz-2.2.20-sun4cdm label=linux root=/dev/sda2 read-only Does it have any error? I've been trying to solve this problem for a week now, and I can't still find any working solution. My machine is Sun Netra i20 (MicroSparc II), is it supported by debian? Thank you. On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 22:52, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:15:38PM +0800, lito lampitoc wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Sorry if this is OT, but I seems to be the only one on debian-sparc > > list, that why I'm cross posting this. > > Er, I never saw your post on debian-sparc ... taking it back there. > > > I installed debian 3 on my Sun sparc netra i20 using only the first > > disk. But during boot up to complete my installation I received the > > following errors: > > > > SILO buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the > > disk.. > > Read error on block 327684 > > Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Attempt to read block from filesystem > > resulted in short read) > > Could'nt load /etc/silo.conf > > > > prior to this, I created a /boot partition of 10MB and the rest was for > > the system, "So I guess that SILO buggy old PROM.." error shouldn't > > appear, but it did. > > Of course it did; even though you installed your kernel in /boot, SILO > still thinks it's installing from / (the large partition). Thus, SILO > cannot read its own config file due to the buggy boot PROM problem. > > Solution: > > First, edit /etc/silo.conf and make the following changes: > > * the "partition" directive should specify the partition /boot is on. > Thus if /boot is /dev/sda1. silo.conf should have "partition=1". > > * each "image" directive needs to be changed so that it lists the > kernels _as they appear in /boot_; the symlinks in / _are not visible > to silo_. THIS IS IMPORTANT! You'll end up with something lioke > this: > > image=1/vmlinuz-2.4.18 > label=2.4.18 > root=/dev/sda2 > read-only > > * run the following commands > > # mkdir /boot/etc > # cp /etc/silo.conf /boot/etc > # ln -sf /boot/etc/silo.conf /etc/silo.conf > # silo -r /boot > > > Also, I'm confused about the start cylinder, in debian, it says that it > > should start at cylinder 0, but in Mandrake 7.1 for sparc, it says it > > should start at cylinder 1 because starting from 0 will damage the > > partition. What is the correct one?. Though I tried both it didn't make > > any difference. > > cylinder 0 works fine for ext2, ext3 partitions. I had some trouble > when experimenting with other filesystems; for instance creating an > XFS filesystem on a partition starting on cylinder 0 overwrote the Sun > disklabel. > > -- > Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small > minds discuss people. > -- Laurence J. Peter
