Re: SILO problems on an E450
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:59:00PM -0400, Scott Walker wrote: > Speaking of SILO... Can SILO boot from a Raid 1 root drive like lilo > can? Yes. You need something like append="md=0,/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1" in your silo.conf. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
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 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
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
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
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/
SILO problems on an E450
[ 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.
