Hello all,
I've upgraded my OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 and now my SUN won't boot
anymore. Whatever I try at the 'ok' prompt has no effect, it keeps
saying 'The file just loaded does not appear to be executable'. I've
tried pretty much all versions of 'boot disk#:#' by now. The system in
question is a SUN Ultra10, 300MHz, 320MB RAM, 40GB HD Maxtor 6E040L.
Partition layout:
<snip>
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc (Sun disk label): 16 heads,
63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1 101 50400
83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 101 79144 39837672
83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 0 79656 40146624
5 Whole disk
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 u 79147 79655 256032
82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 (Sun disk label): 16 heads,
63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p1 1 101
50400 83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p2 101 79144
39837672 83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p3 0 79656
40146624 5 Whole disk
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p4 u 79147 79655
256032 82 Linux swap
</snip>
As you can see, I can boot fine from CD...
My SILO configuration:
<snip>
partition=1
root=/dev/hda2
timeout=10
device=/dev/hda
image=/boot/2.6.12
label=linux
image=/boot/2.6.12-old
label=old
</snip>
This is all correct:
<snip>
livecd ~ # ls /boot/
2.6.12 System.map System.map-2.6.12-old fd.b generic.b
isofs.b old.b silo.conf ultra.b
2.6.12-old System.map-2.6.12 boot first.b ieee32.b
lost+found second.b silotftp.b
</snip>
Running SILO yields no errors... Can someone please help? There has to
be a simple way of fixing this, and I really don't believe I'm the only
one who has ever had this problem either. I've already spent 5(!) hours
reading every single search result I could find on Google and on the
Gentoo forums about this... My SUN is pretty much dead in the water
right now, as I don't feel like booting from a LiveCD just to get it
beyond the OpenBoot POST.
Kind regards,
Arnim Eijkhoudt
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