From: Matt Cole <mikaey@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:07:23 -0600 > 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. If you're going to do that you have to boot from that specific partition. For example, if you put the master bootblock on /dev/hda1 you probably need to boot from "disk:a" or similar. > 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 Hmmm, looking at mine: Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0 12 96390 1 Boot /dev/hda2 12 14219 114117727+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 0 14593 117218272+ 5 Whole disk /dev/hda4 14219 14593 3004155 82 Linux swap I notice that I have none of those funny flags set, and my boot partition starts at zero and is of type "1" or Sun partition type "Boot". Perhaps one of those two things makes a difference. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
