On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:39:07AM +0100, Christian Jönsson wrote: > I have a SPARCserver 20 that I run an up to date woody on. > > When I try booting from disk I instantly get an > Illegal Instruction. > > <#0> ok boot disk > Boot device_ /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],400000/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and > args: (then I can't see more on my serial port access) > Illegal Instruction > > If I try to make a boot diskette using mkboot, it barfs > on no rdev commmand and claiming there's no /boot/boot.b > (should there on sparc systems?)
rdev is x86 specific I believe. > I can only boot my system from an install floppy disk 2.2.19-cdm > (but I haven't tried a network boot yet...) If you can boot from there, drop to a shell and do this: mount /dev/sda1 /target chroot /target /bin/sh silo -f exit umount /target If silo is setup correctly, this should boot again for you. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux -- WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
