On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 09:52 +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote: > 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. You can find more about it ... http://tinyurl.com/382l2sf "The Debian bug was caused by kernel 2.6.30 incorrectly reporting the machine type via uname, so SILO was installing the 32-bit second stage boot loader instead of 64-bit one, which leads to a failure like that" 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