Re: SILO problems while installing lenny beta2
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:31:31PM -0400, Brian Thompson wrote: Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, Have anyone tried to install on a sparc box using lenny beta2 installer images? My installation is hanging on Configuring SILO, apparently because it prompts (without using debconf) for a confirmation about installing SILO configuration. Can anyone please confirm this behaviour? I can't see any relevant changes neither to the SILO package's postinst nor installer's silo-installer package, so I'm not even sure how it worked previously. Cheers. Jurij, Just out of curiosity, did the disk used to have Solaris on it? If so, can you try another disk that never had Solaris installed on it? I've been having issues lately with a few boxes that refuse to recognize disk under Debian that were previously Solaris disks. I've even tried 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=512 count=100' to knock out the first few sectors but to no avail. No, this is a different failure. My disks are detected just fine (after I do the manual firmware loading dance), SILO hangs much later, after the base system and kernel is installed and an attempt to configure SILO is made. Cheers. -- 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]
Re: SILO problems while installing lenny beta2
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, Have anyone tried to install on a sparc box using lenny beta2 installer images? My installation is hanging on Configuring SILO, apparently because it prompts (without using debconf) for a confirmation about installing SILO configuration. Can anyone please confirm this behaviour? I can't see any relevant changes neither to the SILO package's postinst nor installer's silo-installer package, so I'm not even sure how it worked previously. Cheers. Jurij, Just out of curiosity, did the disk used to have Solaris on it? If so, can you try another disk that never had Solaris installed on it? I've been having issues lately with a few boxes that refuse to recognize disk under Debian that were previously Solaris disks. I've even tried 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=512 count=100' to knock out the first few sectors but to no avail. -Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SILO problems on an E450
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: [ Please CC me on all replies ] I'm currently trying to install Debian on a Sun Enterprise 450 with a SCSI drive. OpenBSD's bootloader has worked fine in the past, but when trying to install silo, it seems that nothing ever gets written onto the disk; when booting, OpenBoot can't recognize any valid boot loader on the drive. I've tried versions of silo all the way up to 1.3.0, and not a single one of them ever prints an error; strace seems to show that silo is writing stuff to the disk, but booting is never successful. The disk can be written to perfectly fine, and can be mounted from the a SPARC netinst CD shell. Any suggestions? I'm really stumped on this and I've tried everything I could think of. Are you sure that OBP is attempting to boot from the correct disk? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
Re: SILO problems on an E450
Actually, it seems the SCSI controllers Debian act very weirdly - what OpenBoot thinks is device 1 when there are six drives installed, Debian does not think is sda, but rather something like sde. Very odd, but I fnially figured out which slot is which drive and SILO works now. Ben Collins wrote: Are you sure that OBP is attempting to boot from the correct disk?
Re: SILO problems on an E450
Ari, ap ... Sun Enterprise 450 with a SCSI drive. ap ... silo ... really stumped ... How many drives are on the machine? ap Please CC ... Address? Regards, Peter E. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
Re: SILO problems on an E450
Ari, Sorry for the erroneous time stamp on my previous message. Hopefully this machine keeps time better than the previous one. ap ... Sun Enterprise 450 with a SCSI drive. ap ... silo ... really stumped ... How many drives are on the machine? ap Please CC ... Address? Regards, Peter E. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
Re: SILO problems on an E450
Speaking of SILO... Can SILO boot from a Raid 1 root drive like lilo can? On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:28, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: [ Please CC me on all replies ] I'm currently trying to install Debian on a Sun Enterprise 450 with a SCSI drive. OpenBSD's bootloader has worked fine in the past, but when trying to install silo, it seems that nothing ever gets written onto the disk; when booting, OpenBoot can't recognize any valid boot loader on the drive. I've tried versions of silo all the way up to 1.3.0, and not a single one of them ever prints an error; strace seems to show that silo is writing stuff to the disk, but booting is never successful. The disk can be written to perfectly fine, and can be mounted from the a SPARC netinst CD shell. Any suggestions? I'm really stumped on this and I've tried everything I could think of. Are you sure that OBP is attempting to boot from the correct disk? -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
Re: SILO problems
In a message dated 9/22/99 10:36:36 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Installing on a sparcstation two, I'm trying to reboot. In my /etc/silo.conf: partition=1 root=/dev/sda1 timeout=100 image=vmlinuz label=Linux I then run: # /sbin/silo and it brings me back to a root prompt. However when I reboot, I don't even get the S from SILO, but the followong error message: File and args: Illegal Instruction Type help for more information ok This was a big problem that I had with my SS10 when I first put Debian on it, and it took a few weeks before I figured out the problem. I had to boot from a floppy every time I started the SPARC10. I am by no means a LINUX or SPARC expert, so quickly strike down what might be misinformation from me. I was new to the type of support that a SPARC requires, but had Debian on an Intel based machine previously. The SPARC will require a Big Partition, or Whole Disk partition which I believe is the same thing as what some refer to as the Sun Disk Label, thought I am not absolutely sure that is accurate. The Whole Disk partition is type 5, if you use the L list command within the partition program. You need a Whole Disk partition on the disk, and then your Linux Native partition and Linux Swap partition inside of this. The S command does this all for you, usually. If you are not getting that S option under fdisk, then you that disk might not be bootable. You have no been playing around with the hardware, have you? Setup of partitions on a SPARC is nowhere near the same as it is on an Intel machine, which may be where your previous experiences come from. I am a Novell admin, trying to learn UNIX. Shoot me. In a message dated 9/22/99 11:54:24 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there is an option in fdisk (option s) that allows you to do this .. This is a very good idea, but on my resuce disk, this option is not always listed. It is there after I have configured the disks right, but was not listed in the fdisk prompt during dbootstrap the first few times around. Pressing M should gives you the help list of options, but S sometimes goes away if the fdisk program thinks that the disk is not bootable, for what reasons I do not know. The option will still be available, but not listed. This problem had been addressed before on the Debian SPARC eMail list a few months back, but I do not know if anything was ever done about it. In a message dated 9/23/99 10:01:55 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried setenv boot-device /dev/sda1 at the ok prompt, but had no luck. How do I specify for it to use the first partition on the first harddrive in a sparcstation10? Type help boot at the PROM prompt to get examples of the syntax. Use printenv to list out the environment variables. To my understanding, the typical ID that a SPARC uses to boot from disk is SCSI ID 3, though I do not think that this matters so long as the PROM is programmed right. Use probe-scsi, or probe-scsi-all to get the ID listing of your SCSI devices. The IDs will be listed after the word Target. I hope that this assists you in some way Jesse Molina-Lanners[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phoenix Arizona
Re: SILO problems
I had the same problem: I forgot to set the boot device in the eeprom you can set this when you have the OK prompt. SDHans. Kris Constable wrote: Installing on a sparcstation two, I'm trying to reboot. In my /etc/silo.conf: partition=1 root=/dev/sda1 timeout=100 image=vmlinuz label=Linux I then run: # /sbin/silo and it brings me back to a root prompt. However when I reboot, I don't even get the S from SILO, but the followong error message: File and args: Illegal Instruction Type help for more information ok --- Any ideas? -- Kris Constable I'm simply a packet, Spectrum CSA - Unix Administrator in the internet of life. Nortel Networks -userfriendly.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SDHans Alcatel Telecom Nederland bv mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SILO problems
hans witvliet wrote: I had the same problem: I forgot to set the boot device in the eeprom you can set this when you have the OK prompt. I tried setenv boot-device /dev/sda1 at the ok prompt, but had no luck. How do I specify for it to use the first partition on the first harddrive in a sparcstation10? Thanks in Advance, -- Kris Constable I'm simply a packet, Spectrum CSA - Unix Administrator in the internet of life. Nortel Networks -userfriendly.org
Re: SILO problems
Have you created a Sun disk label on the disk ? Installing on a sparcstation two, I'm trying to reboot. In my /etc/silo.conf: partition=1 root=/dev/sda1 timeout=100 image=vmlinuz label=Linux I then run: # /sbin/silo and it brings me back to a root prompt. However when I reboot, I don't even get the S from SILO, but the followong error message: File and args: Illegal Instruction Type help for more information ok --- Any ideas? -- Kris ConstableI'm simply a packet, Spectrum CSA - Unix Administrator in the internet of life. Nortel Networks -userfriendly.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SILO problems
Jason Fraley wrote: Have you created a Sun disk label on the disk ? Umm no? Why would I have a sun label? Using the rescue disk I can use the floppy's kernel to mount the file system. Wouldn't I need Solaris installed to make a Sun disk label? I guess what I'm wondering is why I'm not getting a SILO: prompt when I power cycle, and why I get no confirmation on success after manually running /sbin/silo that is setup properly now. Thanks in Advance, -- Kris Constable I'm simply a packet, Spectrum CSA - Unix Administrator in the internet of life. Nortel Networks -userfriendly.org
Re: SILO problems
Jason Fraley wrote: Have you created a Sun disk label on the disk ? Umm no? Why would I have a sun label? Using the rescue disk I can use the floppy's kernel to mount the file system. Wouldn't I need Solaris installed to make a Sun disk label? I guess what I'm wondering is why I'm not getting a SILO: prompt when I power cycle, and why I get no confirmation on success after manually running /sbin/silo that is setup properly now. Thanks in Advance, I think the boot ROM has to see a sun disk label in order to boot from said disk ... there is an option in fdisk (option s) that allows you to do this ..
