I forget the details of SILO, but the first stage (512-byte program) simply loads stage 2, which is just the program 'silo' itself, I thought. That probably doesn't change much version-to-version. [Others: please correct me if I am mistaken!] In that case, perhaps you could backup the old `silo` binary and replace it with the newest one? I would think that if you had a USB port you could do this pretty easily using a flash drive (perhaps PCI USB card + flash drive, like I had in my Ultra 10), but if not, you might be able to utilize tftp and pull it from a server using BusyBox.
Patrick On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Jeremy Kister < debian-sp...@jeremykister.com> wrote: > On 6/27/2014 10:50 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote: > >> Recently, we rebooted the server (was healthy afaict) and it won't come >> back. When it tries to boot, it prints "SI" (where it would normally >> say SILO and continue booting) and then just gets stuck. >> > > I've got another two systems (Sparc/X1) that are exhibiting the same > behavior. After about 10 or so minutes of waiting near "SI" the console > prints "Program Terminated" > > I have configured a netboot server and when using 'boot net' at the ok > prompt, it starts the install process. If I break out of the install > process and try 'Install the SILO boot loader on a hard disk', the > partitioner starts up and I get scared to go anywhere (I dont want to lose > any data here!) > > Since I don't really know what else to do, I want to reinstall SILO. Can > someone point me how to do that from a network boot shell? BusyBox ash > loads, but I have no idea how I can use to to reinstall SILO. > > .. Or, if anyone has other ideas, i'm desperate. > > thanks, > > -- > > Jeremy Kister > http://jeremy.kister.net./ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53cd7cd8.8020...@jeremykister.com > >
