Ok, I'm ready to cry uncle on this one.
I have a Sun Ultra 10. The machine was given to me without a hard
drive, so I slapped an old 40GB Maxtor in there that I had sitting
around and compiled an entire Linux setup from source. The machine
initially came with a password set in the NVRAM, so everything that I've
done to it so far has been accomplished by allowing it to netboot off of
my other computer. Since then, I've pulled the old "pull the NVRAM chip
out, put it back in backwards, turn the power on for 2 seconds, then put
the NVRAM chip back in the right way" trick to get rid of the password.
Anywho, I'm having the damnedest time getting SILO to work. I think
I've tried just about every trick that Google knows of. Initially, when
I turned the machine on, I would get "the file just loaded does not
appear to be executable". I since ran SILO with -t to install it on
/dev/hda1, and now I get:
Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), Keyboard Present
OpenBoot 3.31, 256MB (50 ns) memory installed, Serial #16661092.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:fe:3a:64, Host ID: 80fe3a64
Boot device: disk File and args:
...and at this point the machine freezes. It still responds to Stop+A,
but any attempts to do "boot disk0", "boot disk:3", "boot disk:c", etc.,
etc., yield the same result.
Here's the dump of my partition table from fdisk:
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 38170 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 r 1 11 10240 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 u 12 36241 37098496 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 0 38170 39086080 5 Whole disk
/dev/hda4 u 36242 38170 1974272 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda1 is a small ext2 partition that has the SILO boot loaders, my
kernel, and silo.conf. Hopefully, the others should be obvious. Any
suggestions anyone has would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt Cole
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