RE: Debian on Sparc 4 - woody to sarge - more progress

2005-07-02 Thread Steve Lewis
Hi Jurij et all,

I couldn't seem to see why I could type the full path and it would work,
yet SILO couldn't get the info from silo.conf.  My symlinks are there
and so are the files.  In the end I went OTT in silo.conf but it has
fixed the problem.  Now I need to see why I had it in the first place.

Below is the info you requested, even though I can now reboot with no
issues really.  I have a few aesthetics to look at, why it changed my
display to white and why I cannot see the correct Debian install dialogs
(the blue ones).  Being able to upgrade the kernel and access the debian
site was the main issue here and that appears to be solved.

Thanks a lot for your time Jurij et al,

Steve

dns:/# cat /etc/silo.conf
root=/dev/sda1
partition=1
default=linux
timeout=100
read-only

image=1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-sparc32
initrd=1/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-sparc32 root=/dev/sda1 label=linux

image=1/vmlinuz.old
 label=linux


dns:/# ls -al
total 55
drwxr-xr-x   20 root root 1024 Jul  1 16:35 .
drwxr-xr-x   20 root root 1024 Jul  1 16:35 ..
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 Jul  1 13:06 bin
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jul  2 01:57 boot
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 30 21:38 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x5 root root19456 Jul  2 11:48 dev
drwxr-xr-x   40 root root 2048 Jul  2 11:48 etc
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 30 21:38 floppy
drwxrwsr-x4 root staff1024 Jun 30 20:01 home
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 30 21:38 initrd
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   32 Jul  1 16:35 initrd.img -
boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-sparc32
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Jun 30 21:51 lib
drwx--2 root root12288 Jun 30 20:31 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Feb  8  2002 mnt
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 30 21:38 opt
dr-xr-xr-x   35 root root0 Jul  2  2005 proc
drwxr-xr-x3 root root 1024 Jul  1 18:00 root
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 2048 Jul  1 13:02 sbin
drwxrwxrwt3 root root 1024 Jul  2 11:40 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   13 root root 1024 Jun 30 21:38 usr
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 1024 Jun 30 21:38 var
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   29 Jul  1 16:35 vmlinuz -
boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-sparc32
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   27 Jun 30 20:51 vmlinuz.old -
boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-sun4cdm
dns:/# ls -al /boot/
total 3567
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jul  2 01:57 .
drwxr-xr-x   20 root root 1024 Jul  1 16:35 ..
-rw-r--r--1 root root   321829 Jun 30 20:51
System.map-2.2.20-sun4cdm
-rw-r--r--1 root root   314634 Feb 15 11:38
System.map-2.4.27-2-sparc32
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Aug 15  2002 cd.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root 2982 Jun 30 20:51
config-2.2.20-sun4cdm
-rw-r--r--1 root root12700 Feb 15 09:02
config-2.4.27-2-sparc32
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Aug 15  2002 fd.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root  512 Aug 15  2002 first.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1024 Aug 15  2002 generic.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root  784 Aug 15  2002 ieee32.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root  1101824 Jul  1 16:34
initrd.img-2.4.27-2-sparc32
-rw-r--r--1 root root 7680 Jun 30 21:53 old.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root59904 Jul  2 11:44 second.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root57512 Aug 15  2002 silotftp.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root  512 Aug 15  2002 ultra.b
-rw-r--r--1 root root   890942 Jun 30 20:51
vmlinuz-2.2.20-sun4cdm
-rw-r--r--1 root root   842884 Feb 15 11:37
vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-sparc32






-Original Message-
From: Jurij Smakov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 02 July 2005 02:40
To: Steve Lewis
Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Debian on Sparc 4 - woody to sarge - more progress


On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Steve Lewis wrote:

 Hi All,

 Well, the sunlance addition to the modules.conf worked like a charm 
 and I now see my interface card and can get on my network.  
 Unfortunately I still have the boot problem.

 I think this is related to my silo.conf but have tried the following 
 with no luck: -

 First attempt: -

 root=/dev/sda1
 partition=1
 default=Linux
 timeout=100
 read-only

 image=1/vmlinuz
 label=linux
 initrd=initrd.img

Try changing that to

image=1/vmlinuz
 label=linux
 initrd=1/initrd.img

Do you have the /initrd.img - /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-sparc32 symbolic 
link set up? If you still have problems booting, post your final
silo.conf 
file and the output of the following commands:

ls -la /
ls -la /boot

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/   KeyID: C99E03CC


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of unsubscribe

RE: Debian on Sparc 4 - woody to sarge - more progress

2005-07-01 Thread Steve Lewis
Title: Message



Hi 
All,

Well, the sunlance 
addition to the modules.conf worked like a charm and I now see my interface card 
and can get on my network.Unfortunately I still have the boot 
problem.

I think this is 
related to my silo.conf but have tried the following with no luck: 
-

First attempt: 
-

root=/dev/sda1partition=1default=Linuxtimeout=100read-only

image=1/vmlinuz 
label=linux 
initrd=initrd.img

image=1/vmlinuz.old 
label=linux
--

Second attempt: 
-

root=/dev/sda1partition=1default=Linuxtimeout=100read-only

image=/vmlinuz 
label=linux 
initrd=initrd.img

image=/vmlinuz.old 
label=linux
The reason for 
tryingwithout the 1 in the image line was because I thought the 
'partition=1' was perhaps making it read image=1/1/vmlinuz

I also tried moving 
the file to the boot directory and doing a silo -C /boot/silo.conf, but that 
didn't work either.

This _could_ be my 
last hurdle to finishing off the kernel upgrade and move to sarge on my 
SPARC4. I should really do this on my P3 as well, but may take a bit of 
time off :-)

Thanks for your help 
all,

Steve


RE: Debian on Sparc 4 - woody to sarge - more progress

2005-07-01 Thread Jurij Smakov

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Steve Lewis wrote:


Hi All,

Well, the sunlance addition to the modules.conf worked like a charm and
I now see my interface card and can get on my network.  Unfortunately I
still have the boot problem.

I think this is related to my silo.conf but have tried the following
with no luck: -

First attempt: -

root=/dev/sda1
partition=1
default=Linux
timeout=100
read-only

image=1/vmlinuz
label=linux
initrd=initrd.img


Try changing that to

image=1/vmlinuz
label=linux
initrd=1/initrd.img

Do you have the /initrd.img - /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-sparc32 symbolic 
link set up? If you still have problems booting, post your final silo.conf 
file and the output of the following commands:


ls -la /
ls -la /boot

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/   KeyID: C99E03CC


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]