On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:31 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > I've found an old laptop with a serial port to use as a serial console > and resurrected my Ultra 1e. I decided to upgrade it to the latest > Debian Squeeze, and it now won't load SILO. *sigh*. On boot, it fails > with the message "Fast data access MMU miss" before SILO even prints > anything. Apparently these messages are due to things being too large > according to the ubuntu forums, but this occurs before SILO even > loads, which makes me suspicious. I'll have to investigate further, > but that means I'll have to take a trip to an installer environment - > and given that I now lack the machine I had set up for installing them > off, that's going to be difficult at best. I'm thinking a complete > re-install might be an idea, but I've had persistent issues getting my > Ultra 5 to install in the past, so I'm concerned that this might not > happen. Have seen this happening on different sparc boxes, several times. Boot the install cd, now in rescue mode. Chrooting the installed partition and run # silo -u -f again. Next reboot the Ultra. Thanks, Frans van Berckel -- 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
