On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:22:13PM -0300, Flamarion Jorge wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 05/09/2011 01:46 PM, Ivan Jager wrote: > > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:57:50AM -0300, Flamarion Jorge scribbled: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On 05/05/2011 08:56 PM, Flamarion Jorge wrote: > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I am the Flamarion Jorge and I'm from Brazil. > >>> > >>> I joined this list for two reasons: > >>> > >>> 1 - I understand very little about the SPARC architecture, which must > >>> have an installed Debian and it works well. > >>> 2 - I really want to report a successful installation for staff of the DI > >>> > >>> So here we go > >>> > >>> Today all afternoon here in Brazil (GMT -3) I tried unsuccessfully to > >>> get a boot with Debian installed on SUN T5220. > >>> > >>> Initially I did a normal installation using a traditional partitioning > >>> using EXT3 and SWAP. > >>> > >>> After some reading on the Internet I saw that it was necessary to have a > >>> primary partition in UFS and EXT2 format, and has a partition table with > >>> the label SUN. > >>> > >>> Well, I tried to do this manually, without success. I tried to leave the > >>> DI guided partitioning, without success. I tried, tried and tried ..... > >>> I read a lot, but unfortunately I can reach the end of successful > >>> installation, with all the hardware detected and functional, but I can > >>> not boot from a ILOM. > >>> > >>> The only way I could access my Debian on SUM T5220 was through the > >>> rescue mode of DI. > >>> > >>> So after all this saga, I'd like a hint of you on how to make Debian > >>> boot properly SILO from the ILOM. > >>> > >>> This machine is at my disposal, so I can try any hint that you want to > >>> post so we can report a successful installation of for the DI guys and > >>> the staff of the SPARC port. > >>> > >>> Thank you very much > >>> > >> > >> Hi again, > >> > >> Can anyone give me a hint to help start the SILO? > > > > Yes, but sorry it's going to be rather obvious since you didn't > > go into detail as to what the problem was. Go to openfirmware > > (the ok prompt) and type "boot disk" (or whatever is needed to > > boot of the disk where you installed silo). Then, (this is the > > important part) observe what *does* happen. If you can't figure > > out how to fix it, it would be easier to help if you actually > > tell us what happened. If there is an error, you may want to copy > > and paste it. If there is no output whatsoever, you would want to > > say that. If it only prints "S" you would want to say that. It's > > a bit hard to guess what went wrong if all you say is that it was > > unsuccessful. > > > > As for the SUN disklabel, you seem a bit confused about that, but > > it may just be the translation from Portuguese. SUN does not use > > the same partitioning scheme as the DOS partitions you are > > probably used to. It's not that you need a partition with a label > > of SUN, it's that you should be using a sun disklabel rather than > > a DOS partition table. But if you're using the installer to > > partition the disk, that shouldn't be a problem as it will do the > > right thing. If you're partitioning manually and want more > > details check man fdisk or > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/BSD_disklabel but > > I don't think that's actually the problem. > > > > Ivan > > > > > > First thanks for trying to help me. > > My problem is: I can not load the silo from the "ok prompt" > > When i install Debian, using guided partitioning of Debian Installer, > and the installation finished successfully, after the first reboot I get > the following message: > > {0} ok boot disk > Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0 File and args: > Bad magic number in disk label > Can't open disk label package > ERROR: boot-read fail > > > Can't open boot device
Try 'boot disk1'. > > For the record, before I run the partitioning, I deleted the partition > table of disks with the command "dd" (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda > count=2 bs=512, sdb too) > > On this machine I have 4 HDD, 2 SCSI drives with a pair of drives > configured with RAID 1 on each controller. > > The disks are detected by the Debian Installer as sda and sdb, sda I'm > using to install the system. > > I'll be grateful for any additional information you can provide me, and > I apologize for not sending the correct information in the first message. > > Thank you. > > - -- > Flamarion Jorge > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNyD7gAAoJEJhPZF0zwv0zYSEP/3znZDXa/rScVd9fiZcxuAS7 > zECkouuKHSeG06y0MCOUgWu6iK5+rCKrpaWxkBVh52dYDM1658vQl+GYpKkIx9Yu > gIFqWY1FJN/9KspZffwlPZeDWcNr7+4YpKy7POpf0ywonGLfnjFLEwO8AOfgrJNo > 1DAAuQgxmEy2Cxy4QrGq702r4xhrgwfMiOnH2M4L8XrjJ6nXZUMC+q6P7x124L9m > peIa0UtQudcsrfvvr47XkNxXWSL4viNKq/JsPmVOLnScZqvrryFL8gthUHXn/Zby > ZzxMepYGvcr3FPLaABHXk6vEEGKrdipxYG5nP6K9baPvXwJ2KupzQnLOt8WD1yZb > 6T3+U4PlLE2zOShvQMOnXasU+DTSDi874qwWfRwcE+F2jI1yePD40wbyWLaapCiB > x6k4k3AawRc4os0OobN64YByHek3vG+Ei1Gv8TKO/p9gqhoMYguLil9LcFL2R/HR > ct+BuR7KhZCArant3ExXM1+qNRyGyDP2sKv4ew0jMJknkrXrrzRkDzSwvRcWkE1R > LS1QzEp7A9XTAflrQz1Rk44mxUgHwZiJzMzXpnLMOkYB+bTRWFaO66/NzI4U09q4 > S3G7NxYvuTAgWyM71cuo/35ZyadG4GbG0/gD9iQDBDOVpaiJLZE6HwrsTT81y9J5 > 6fkH1JWcr+YIViOP+Jyz > =/c/p > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dc83ee5.6000...@yahoo.com.br -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110509200409.ga5...@droopy.oc.cox.net