On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 19:52, Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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!!!!! After a bit of stuffing around involving a broken CD-ROM drive, a very slow laptop, broken installer images and the realisation that TFTPboot images are not ISOs, I managed to finally get in and do that and it works like a charm Thanks! -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- 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
