After booting from CD, rerun the silo command. Sounds like your boot sector got corrupted, or you moved second.b on your filesystem without rerunning silo.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:12:25AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote: > 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
