For some reason my Sparcstation 20 won't boot from the boot floppies, or from the ISO of disk 1 of the full Debian install. It only boots from this ghetto mini-sparc image.
I hit on the idea of switching to the console to run silo and see if it gave any better error output, and it does. It says "silo: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by silo)." So, the versions of silo and libc.so.6 included on this CD are incompatible... COOL! Next I hit on the idea of trying the version of silo included with the full install that I have now completed, minus the final running of silo. My disk layout is as follows: /dev/sda1: 10M /boot partition /dev/sda2: 17G / partition /dev/sda3: 300M swap partition So I mounted sda2 to /target and sda1 to /target/boot Then I did chroot /target Now when I run silo, it says "Fatal error: your /boot/second.b is located above the magic 1G boundary from the start of the disk." How can that possibly be if /boot starts at sector 1 and is only 10M!? This is driving me crazy. Help! Best regards, Owen B. Mehegan IT Manager, Perseus Development Corp. Landline: (781) 848-8100 x263 Mobile: (617) 285-1701 SurveySolutions for the Web: Winner of the PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award -----Original Message----- From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SILO won't run On Thursday 11 September 2003 15:43, Owen Mehegan wrote: > I'm not sure which version of the Debian install this is, I'm using the > mini-sparc image that I found here: > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ > > In any case, the issue with SILO comes up _during the install,_ so right > now I'm stuck. The install wants to run SILO so the system can be bootable, > but that won't run. For some reason it also will not create a boot floopy. > Since I'm in the midst of an install, apt-get doesn't seem to be present, > so I can't take your suggestion of updating and checking. Any other ideas? Is it possible to finish the installation without installing SILO, then boot your installation using a boot disk and then try what I suggested? It seems you have a duff package set with the wrong version of either SILO or glibc. You could try contacting whoever it is that distributes the mini-ISO image and see if they can replicate & fix the problem. If possible it might be an idea to try an official full ISO image - at least it is (almost) guaranteed to work. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
