Duncan THOMSON wrote: > Eric wrote: > > Duncan THOMSON wrote: > >> i'm running on a floppy-less ELC with two external SCSI drives. > >> > >> i appear to have succeeded the install procedure with both the RARP/TFTP > >> and > >> RARP/TFTP/NFS methods, install the kernel/drivers/base system ok, and run > >> silo. however, when i reboot, silo give me: > >> > >> SILO > >> Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error) > >> > >> Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf > >> (and further messages about booting from the command line, which i've tried > >> to follow to no avail.) > >> > > Did you checked if your /etc/silo.conf exists on the target disk ? > > Boot off network with the install procedure, then mount an already > > initialized > > partition. It is now mounted on /target (or mount it by hand from a shell). > > If no silo.conf exists, create it with something like that: > > > > partition=1 > > root=/dev/sda1 > > timeout=100 > > image=/linux > > label=linux > > read-only > > i checked that all was as above (the file existed, and the only difference was > image=/vmlinuz (and /target/vmlinuz existed, so that shouldn't be a problem). > > > Then run > > /target/sbin/silo -r /target > > i did this too, no errors reported at this stage. > > > BTW, is your first partition starting at cylinder 0? I guess silo suppose > > so, > > and it needs to be an ext2 partition (no swap here otherwise it will erase > > the > > partition sector). > > using fdisk, it seems that the first cylinder is indeed 0, and it's not for > swap (it'll be the root partition). if it helps, the partition tables are > reproduced below. both disks are FUJITSU M2624FA (cyl 1427 alt 2 hd 11 sec > 64). > > Device Flag Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 0 0 279 92288 83 Linux native > /dev/sda2 u 279 279 1427 404096 83 Linux native > /dev/sda3 0 0 1427 502304 5 Whole disk > > Device Flag Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 0 0 279 450560 83 Linux native > /dev/sdb2 u 1280 1280 1427 51744 82 Linux native > /dev/sdb3 0 0 1427 502304 5 Whole disk > > and /target/etc/fstab is > > /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remopunt-ro 0 1 > /dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/sdb1 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 > > and finally, /target/etc/silo.conf is > > parition=1 > root=/dev/sda1 > timeout=100 > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > > anyone have any suggestions? i don't *think* it's a hardware error, > since redhat4 was installed on the same machine previously...
What are the scsi ids of your disks ? Is /dev/sda the first disk in the chain ? If not maybe you have to boot with "boot disk<n>" where <n> is scsi id. I recall that Sun swapped id 0 and 3, so if, for example, /dev/sdb could be id 3 and /dev/sda id 1. And you could have your old rh-silo installed on /dev/sdb called by default ;( Hope this help. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]