Perhaps this rings a bell for someone:
I just noticed something odd that might be the actual cause of the
problem. I used to be able to netboot the SUN as well, just slam the
image into /tftpboot on the TFTP server and done. However, now I get
'Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss' no matter what image I try to boot
(most notably, the flash PROM updates from SUN). Perhaps there is
something set incorrectly in the OpenBoot I should look at?
Arnim.
Ben Collins wrote:
Sorry. Didn't read far enough.
Only things that come to my mind is that it is not booting the sectory
from /dev/hda (maybe some incorrect partition). Or you installed the
incorrect flash upgrade for your machine.
Are you sure that 3.31 is the latest? I seem to remember there being a
newer version than that for your type of Ultra. You can always try
downgrading your prom back to the older version.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:54:10AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote:
Hello,
Right now:
gateway boot # cat silo.conf
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
So, the same as listed below in my original posting.
TIA,
Arnim.
Ben Collins wrote:
What's your silo.conf look like?
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:25:35AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote:
Hi Ben,
Thanks for responding. I have, but to no avail. I've tried running SILO
with multiple exotic combinations such as -f and -u to force it to
rewrite the bootblock for my Ultra. What I don't understand is how the
boot sector could get corrupted in the first place. I've also tried
putting the first partition back at 'Start = 0' now; no deal.
Kind regards,
Arnim
Ben Collins wrote:
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
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