On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 18:32 +0530, Rigved Rakshit wrote: > > Sorry for the late reply. I forgot what the error message was and had > to wait on someone to message it to me. (This machine is at my > ex-college). > > The hard disk has Linux (Debian) only on it. > Yes, the SILO bootloader was installed correctly; at least it did not > show any error messages. > > When I start the machine, I get the OpenBoot prompt. The error shown > is as such: > "Boot device: disk File and args: > The file just loaded does not appear to be executable"
> Even if I manually type the boot command, it shows the same error. > > I do not know if it is fit into slot 0. I will have to check. (I will > check it when I go there this Saturday). > > Yes, I can boot the Debian Squeeze CD by typing "boot cdrom" from the > OpenBoot prompt. Then, when I enter rescue mode, I can execute a root > shell on the hard disk which has the Squeeze '/' filesystem. From > there, I can see that everything seems to be have been installed > correctly. > > One more thing I forgot to mention is that I used the netinst CD. It > needed a non-free driver for the ethernet card. So, I downloaded the > non-free kernel drivers' package, put it on a flash drive and tried to > install it during the installation process. But, for some reason, it > would not mount the flash drive. If this netinst (without internet > access) may have been the problem, I will download the installer DVD > and try the install again. > > Hope this helps to pin-point the problem. This all looks well. If you execute a root shell, what does # fdisk -l look like? I found a topic by Google, linking here ... http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.solaris/sparc-bootloader-and-SILO-with-LINUX I do not know what goes on yet, but the non-free part is probably a firmware needed & thats okay. Are you sure its for the Ethernet driver. Or does it drive the SCSI controller? Do a # dmesg | grep firmware in root shell to be sure. And take a look the firmware is in /lib/firmware as well. If the disk fits in 1, instead of 0 you can try boot with $ boot disk1 Thanks, Frans van Berckel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
