On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Steve Lewis wrote: [..]
root=/dev/sda1 partition=1 timeout=100 read-onlyimage=1/vmlinuz label=linux initrd=/initrd.img image=1/vmlinuz.old label=linuxOLD initrd=/initrd.img.old I should then remove the existing symlink and create a new one called vmlinuz.old pointing to my 2.2.20 kernel and create a new symlink called vmlinuz pointing to the new 2.4.27 kernel
Yes, except that initrd= option for 2.2.20 (woody) kernel is not necessary, since it does not need/support initrd. And you will also need to create a symlink:
/initrd.img -> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-sparc32 [..]
And failing that to be able to use the old kernel by doing: - linux image=1/boot/vmlinux-2.2.20-sun4cdm initrd=1/boot/initrd.img-2.2.20-sun4cdm root=/dev/sda1
Again, initrd option is not necessary for booting 2.2.20 kernel.
Do these need to be proceeded with the command 'boot'?
You'll need to type these at the 'boot:' prompt given by SILO, not at the PROM 'ok' prompt.
Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.20/hfs.o
This can be safely ignored.
Setting up ash (0.3.8-37) ... scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00 Info fld=0x1e7ec2, Current sd08:07: sns = f0 3 ASC=11 ASCQ=43 Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x1e 0x7e 0xc2 0x0c 0x0d 0x32 0x04 0x2a 0x11 0x15 0x80 scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:07, sector 590354
That looks like a hardware problem. It might be just a controller quirk, or the disk might actually have physical problems on it.
I have not edited the silo.conf or symlinks just yet, I thought it wiser to see if there any tips from this message. I remember that when the kernel package is installed that there is a question about symlinking but cannot quite remember it, something about doing it from scratch.
Yeah, after kernel package installation it will try to set up the symbolic links /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img, pointing to the latest installed kernel and initrd image respectively. You can either use those in your silo.conf, or create symlinks manually in / and use silo.conf mentioned above. Either way should work.
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