Hello,
Recently we've tried to get the latest SILO (1.4.11) into the Debian
unstable. Unfortunately, testing revealed that there is a regression:
Frans Pop has noted that when used on his Ultra 10, new SILO does not
handle the timeout before booting correctly. On Ultra 10 it just sits
at the boot prompt, waiting for someone to press Enter, which is pretty
bad. It works fine on my Ultra 60. Frans has also confirmed, that if the
changes in second/timer.c, introduced in 1.4.11 are reverted, the old
behaviour is restored.
Another piece of information regarding new SILO, is that it still fails to
boot SunFire V880 from CD. Stephen Frost was kind enough to test it on his
machine, and sent me the following transcript:
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/scsi@1/disk@6,0:f File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.11
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
{2} ok
Any ideas on what can be done to take care of these problems are welcome.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@xxxxxxxxx
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