Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Machine is a stock Sun Blade with 256MB of memory, 20GB hard drive. Etch 4.0r0 official release netboot media fails - Boot from CD rom from SILO succeeds, then machine hangs trying to boot Linux. This is 2.6.18-4 Same here with 2.6.18 but it works with boot Linux video=atyfb:off That's not needed to boot 2.6.20, but is still needed to avoid red dots anyway jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:43:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A Sun Blade 100 which had a Debian Sarge installation on failed with initially lots of network errors occurring in the logs. [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85% installed :( Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly? SILO boots, kernel loads then fails saying /dev/hda2 isn't recognised as valid Then this is not a SILO problem. What is hda supposed to be, IDE primary master? Do you have the initrd set up properly so that the IDE driver can be loaded? The kernel stanza in silo.conf should simply have an additional: initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.something If you don't have the file, you can generate it with update-initramfs. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Java for Iceape
What package should I be using to tack Java onto Iceape in an off-the-shelf Etch for SPARC? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:43:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A Sun [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85% installed :( Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly? SILO boots, kernel loads then fails saying /dev/hda2 isn't recognised as valid Then this is not a SILO problem. What is hda supposed to be, IDE primary master? Do you have the initrd set up properly so that the IDE driver can be loaded? hda is primary master, yes The kernel stanza in silo.conf should simply have an additional: initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.something Can you post me a complete silo.conf so that I can see what the boot and root arguments should be. I'm not sure what the first line in a silo.conf should be: good worked examples would be appreciated. If you don't have the file, you can generate it with update-initramfs. Thanks for this - Jim's point about video=atyfb:off is also very useful. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: The kernel stanza in silo.conf should simply have an additional: initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.something Can you post me a complete silo.conf so that I can see what the boot and root arguments should be. I'm not sure what the first line in a silo.conf should be: good worked examples would be appreciated. If you don't have the file, you can generate it with update-initramfs. Thanks for this - Jim's point about video=atyfb:off is also very useful. I guess you want something simple, like this: root=/dev/hda2 partition=2 default=Linux read-only timeout=100 append= video=atyfb:off image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd.img The first parameter, root, specifies the device that should be mounted as root. It's no different from ix86, I guess. The partition parameter is the number of the partition that is implied in the /some/thing paths later in the file. After you edit, run silo to check the configuration. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
