Silo on RAID 1

2017-11-26 Thread Frans van Berckel
Dear team, How am i gonna solve this error, with a fresh Silo install on RAID 1? ~ # cat /target/boot/silo.conf root=/dev/md1 partition=0 default=Linux read-only timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux initrd=/initrd.img image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD initrd

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-30 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
Two more caveats in common/jmp.S.. diff --git a/common/jmp.S b/common/jmp.S index 3bc8c94..a446d78 100644 --- a/common/jmp.S +++ b/common/jmp.S @@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ -#define

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-26 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
file.c | 2 +- second/muldi3.S | 10 +- silo/silo.c | 12 ++-- 14 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/Rules.make b/Rules.make index 0f176db..e46af48 100644 --- a/Rules.make +++ b/Rules.make @@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ V

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Sam! On 11/25/2016 10:22 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > (...) Thank you very much for all the input! This helps a lot! I will have a look at your comments and improve the patch. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-25 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi John. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:59:32PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > This patch adds the necessary changes to compile silo > on sparc64. It adds the required stack bias for stack > operations and makes sure that all variables are properly > aligned and have the prope

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-25 Thread David Miller
dy), do the required changes so that >> it's still works for everybody without extra fiddling. > > Don't be so rude, I'm not forcing anything onto anyone. > >>>> Also you broke the tilo build... >>> >>> Not here. Just tried it again and it builds fine. Can you be

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-25 Thread David Miller
lt to -m >> native. > > I think that's your job to try. If you want to "add 64-bit support" > (instead of forcing it to everybody), do the required changes so that > it's still works for everybody without extra fiddling. +1 This is exactly the kind of trouble the origin

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/25/2016 05:44 PM, David Miller wrote: > Many people, including myself, are still using predominantly 32-bit > userspace on sparc64 machines. It is significantly faster, and for > me speed is really important. I have already fixed this issue in a second version posted yesterday. Thanks,

Re: SILO Issues on an E4900

2016-11-25 Thread Louis Liu
ext. I see this number In aout_load.c of QEMU and boot of NetBSD. This magic numbers is a "Branch Always" instruction, which jumps to the real entry point. Because the text is not placed at different address, the boot loader has to arrange it. In Silo, first-iso/crt0.S may be fine, it move

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:26:20PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 11/24/2016 11:05 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > The same issue as with silo. > > Don't you think your statements are a bit misleading then? I didn't break > anything, > I changed the default t

[PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
This patch adds the necessary changes to compile silo on sparc64. It adds the required stack bias for stack operations and makes sure that all variables are properly aligned and have the proper size, both on 32- and 64-bit targets. These changes have been verified to work and have been used

silo: Add 64-bit support, v2

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Replaced "LD=ld -m elf64_sparc" with "LD=ld" which essentially reverts c836dbda which hard-wired the build to 32 bits. Since both 32- and 64-bit builds are supported these days, this should no longer be necessary. Adrian

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/24/2016 11:51 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > You could write the Makefile so that build works even with 32-bit > userspace. I don't think it's unreasonable or rude to demand. It isn't. But it's always possible to say that in polite way. I'm trying to help improving things, not forcing anything

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/24/2016 11:32 PM, James Clarke wrote: > Part of the problem is not forcing 64-bit, but that the Makefile is > inconsistent. > The default CC is gcc without any flags, but ld is given -m elf64_sparc. If > you > are running with sparc32 as your default target, gcc will generate 32-bit >

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread James Clarke
do the required changes so that >> it's still works for everybody without extra fiddling. > > Don't be so rude, I'm not forcing anything onto anyone. > >>>> Also you broke the tilo build... >>> >>> Not here. Just tried it again and it builds fine. Ca

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
rcing anything onto anyone. >>> Also you broke the tilo build... >> >> Not here. Just tried it again and it builds fine. Can you be more specific? > > The same issue as with silo. Don't you think your statements are a bit misleading then? I didn't break anything, I changed

Re: SILO Issues on an E4900

2016-11-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 24/11/16 21:26, vinc...@cojot.name wrote: > A while back I stumbled onto an old post talking about the 'Illegal > instruction' issue with SILO on serengeti machines: > > http://helenos-blog.pavel-rimsky.cz/?p=3 > > Any thoughts? > > Note that I have not personall

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/24/2016 10:23 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > This breaks the native build on my Sun Ultra 5 with 32-bit userspace and GCC > defaulting to ultrasparc: Well, you can just change this part back to "elf32_sparc" and it will work. Might even be possible to omit the "-m" option altogether to it will

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread Aaro Koskinen
n Ultra 5 with 32-bit userspace and GCC defaulting to ultrasparc: $ make [...] make[1]: Entering directory '/home/aaro/silo/first' gcc -Os -Wall -I. -I../include -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -DSMALL_RELOC=0x28 -DLARGE_RELOC=0x38 -fno-stack-protector -c first.S -o first.o

Re: SILO Issues on an E4900

2016-11-24 Thread vincent
A while back I stumbled onto an old post talking about the 'Illegal instruction' issue with SILO on serengeti machines: http://helenos-blog.pavel-rimsky.cz/?p=3 Any thoughts? Note that I have not personally verified that it works or not (I sold my US-IIICu sb2k some time ago already

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-11-24 12:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Dave! As promised in another mail earlier today, here is the current patch changes that we are currently using on top of silo HEAD to build it as a 64-bit package in Debian unstable (sparc64). The silo package has been shipped in Debian

Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Nov 24, 2016, at 6:43 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: > >> On 2016-11-24 12:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi Dave! >> As promised in another mail earlier today, here is the current patch >> changes that we are currently using on top of silo HEAD

[PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
This patch adds the necessary changes to compile silo on sparc64. It adds the required stack bias for stack operations and makes sure that all variables are properly aligned and have the proper size, both on 32- and 64-bit targets. These changes have been verified to work and have been used

[PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dave! As promised in another mail earlier today, here is the current patch changes that we are currently using on top of silo HEAD to build it as a 64-bit package in Debian unstable (sparc64). The silo package has been shipped in Debian with 64-bit support for a while now without any major

Re: SILO Issues on an E4900

2016-11-24 Thread David Miller
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:29 +0100 > For SILO, Oracle has created several patches which port SILO to 64-bit (I > extracted > that patch and applied it to the Debian package) and other packages which > improv

Re: SILO Issues on an E4900

2016-11-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
blem is that while several patches for SILO and even GRUB exist which improve these bootloaders on sparc64, none of them have actually officially been merged yet. For SILO, Oracle has created several patches which port SILO to 64-bit (I extracted that patch and applied it to the Debian package)

Re: silo: FTBFS on sparc64

2016-10-02 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
Package: silo Followup-For: Bug #730478 User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Hello! Can we please close this bug report since there's working silo package in the unreleased sparc64. # apt show silo Package: silo Version: 1.4.14

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/30/2015 10:48 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Maybe the current (properly patched) version of elftoaout should be > submitted to either to SILO or kernel upstream source tree, so that > people wouldn't need to face such issues in the future... >From what I can see, upstream seems lon

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-30 Thread Aaro Koskinen
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:57:15PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/30/2015 10:48 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > Maybe the current (properly patched) version of elftoaout should be > > submitted to either to SILO or kernel upstream source tree, so that > > people

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-30 Thread Aaro Koskinen
hed) version of elftoaout should be submitted to either to SILO or kernel upstream source tree, so that people wouldn't need to face such issues in the future... A.

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 13:18 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 12:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > > The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check > > > whether Oracle has a patched version. > > > > The Oracle devtoolset sources (incl binutils) are

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Patrick Baggett
Nice job everyone! On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/29/2015 12:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > >> The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check > >> whether Oracle has a patched version. > > > > The

Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Something with the version of silo I built from source on sparc64 is amiss: Version from sparc: (sparc64 host): genisoimage -G boot/isofs.b -B ... -r -o test.iso boot/ (amd64 host): qemu-system-sparc64 -nographic -m 512 -cdrom test.iso -boot d OpenBIOS for Sparc64 Configuration device id

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Bryce
On 29/12/15 11:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 11:52 AM, Richard Mortimer wrote: >> From memory the conversion to a.out is done by the elftoaout binary from >> sparc-utils. It maybe that the problem lies in there rather than in silo >> itself. &

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/29/2015 12:18 PM, Bryce wrote: > Having just looked, it carries a small patch (elftoaout-include.patch) which > modifies the Exec struct, though now that I look at it, as mentioned by Mark, > those should probably be u_int32_t for portability between 32/64. > We didn't make any changes to

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 29/12/15 10:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Mark! > > On 12/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> The a.out magic (0x107) is located at bytes 0x202-0x204 in the working >> image but appears at bytes 0x206-0x207 in the broken image. It looks >> li

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 29/12/15 09:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > Something with the version of silo I built from source on sparc64 is > amiss: > > Version from sparc: > > (sparc64 host): genisoimage -G boot/isofs.b -B ... -r -o test.iso boot/ > (amd64 host): qemu-syste

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mark! On 12/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > The a.out magic (0x107) is located at bytes 0x202-0x204 in the working > image but appears at bytes 0x206-0x207 in the broken image. It looks > like somehow your 64-bit SILO build is extending the a.out header fields > from 3

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 12:03 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check > whether Oracle has a patched version. The Oracle devtoolset sources (incl binutils) are available here ...

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/29/2015 12:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: >> The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check >> whether Oracle has a patched version. > > The Oracle devtoolset sources (incl binutils) are available here ... Not necessary, thanks. The bug was in elftoaout which made bogus

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread Richard Mortimer
t; like somehow your 64-bit SILO build is extending the a.out header fields >> from 32-bits to 64-bits which is why the bootloader fails to be detected >> by the PROM. > > Great work, you're absolutely right. The offsets for the magic are > different when comparing both isof

Re: Need help debugging silo

2015-12-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/29/2015 11:52 AM, Richard Mortimer wrote: > From memory the conversion to a.out is done by the elftoaout binary from > sparc-utils. It maybe that the problem lies in there rather than in silo > itself. Right! That must be it: typedef struct { unsigned long

Kernel image size limitations silo?

2015-12-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Jose (and others @Oracle)! I am in the final process of creating a fresh set of debian-installer images for sparc64 and just stumbled over the following comment in the scripts which create the sparc install images [1]: # Sparc64 kernel is so big, that uncompressing it corrupts SILO memory

Re: Kernel image size limitations silo?

2015-12-28 Thread crn
of debian-installer images for sparc64 and just stumbled over the following comment in the scripts which create the sparc install images [1]: # Sparc64 kernel is so big, that uncompressing it corrupts SILO memory, # uncompress it before hand. Does this apply to the 64-bit version of silo which I

Re: Kernel image size limitations silo?

2015-12-28 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 28/12/15 14:11, c...@netunix.com wrote: > It is not that simple. > Basically ( the Oracle guys should know more ) the OBP only initialises > a small block of memory so your image must fit into that space until it > has initialised enough memory management to use more space. > The clue is to

Re: Kernel image size limitations silo?

2015-12-28 Thread Jose E. Marchesi
Hi John. I am in the final process of creating a fresh set of debian-installer images for sparc64 and just stumbled over the following comment in the scripts which create the sparc install images [1]: # Sparc64 kernel is so big, that uncompressing it corrupts SILO memory

SILO and Solaris

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I notice that most descriptions of booting Solaris from SILO mention ufsboot, but it appears that was dropped after SunOS 5.7 or 5.8 apparently since the kernel no longer needed to handle pre-OBP systems. If a machine has both Linux and Solaris 10 or 11 (e.g. OpenSXCE) installed, is it still

Silo and /boot raid device

2014-08-31 Thread BERTRAND Joël
] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0] 4883648 blocks [2/2] [UU] Server boots but I not able to reinstall silo bootblock on /dev/sdb. Silo only returns : Root gershwin:[~] silo /etc/silo.conf appears to be valid Fatal error: File systems other than ext2, ext3, ufs and romfs not yet

JFTR: Bug #721498 (ITA: silo) is work in progress

2013-11-25 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, as the question came up on IRC: Just wanted to give some update about my progress in adopting the silo package: Thanks to Jurij I'm now a memmber of the debootloaders Alioth project. I imported the previous packaging and switched to Git. My packing so far is at http://anonscm.debian.org

Re: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-02 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Control: retitle -1 ITA: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader Control: owner -1 ! Hi Jurij, Jurij Smakov wrote: There are currently no serious bugs that I know of, so it's mostly about keeping it reasonably up to date. Ok

Re: Bug#721498: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
. Done: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debootloaders/silo.git;a=shortlog Upload preferably after I managed to build silo on sparc64, too. If that seems too far away, I'll probably upload earlier. Thanks for picking it up. Thanks for all your work on silo so far! Regards

Re: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-10-01 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: retitle -1 ITA: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader Control: owner -1 ! Hi Jurij, Jurij Smakov wrote: There are currently no serious bugs that I know of, so it's mostly about keeping it reasonably up to date. Ok, I'll try my luck. I managed to revamp the package in a way that my UltraSparc

O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-09-01 Thread Jurij Smakov
Package: wnpp Severity: normal [This message is bcc'd to sub...@bugs.debian.org.] Given that I'm no longer involved with sparc port and none of the other silo maintainers appear to be active (no replies to [0], sent over a month ago), I think the best course of action is to orphan silo

Re: O: silo -- Sparc Improved LOader

2013-09-01 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal [This message is bcc'd to sub...@bugs.debian.org.] Given that I'm no longer involved with sparc port and none of the other silo maintainers appear to be active (no replies to [0], sent over

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-09-07 Thread Jurij Smakov
uploaded a new silo package (1.4.14+git20120819-1) including these fixes to unstable, and would encourage everyone to test it (it should appear on the mirrors within a few hours). After a grace period of 10 days we are going to arrange for its propagation to testing, given

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-09-07 Thread David Miller
From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 09:33:58 +0100 If you could give it a try to confirm that it now boots successfully on your machine, it would be appreciated. I'm 3600 miles away from the machine for the next few months so this isn't practical, sorry. -- To

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-19 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:14:16AM -0700, David Miller wrote: This generates an illegal instruction exception. This has a long history. For the first sun4v port of SILO in commit 494770a17eea7192d3242051e76f4da6d838e3a1 (SILO Niagara/SUN4V support) this code was removed entirely

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-19 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:24:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:41:42 +0100 I just uploaded a new silo package (1.4.14+git20120819-1) including these fixes to unstable, and would encourage everyone to test it (it should appear

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-19 Thread David Miller
From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:41:42 +0100 I just uploaded a new silo package (1.4.14+git20120819-1) including these fixes to unstable, and would encourage everyone to test it (it should appear on the mirrors within a few hours). After a grace period of 10

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-19 Thread David Miller
From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:29:05 +0100 On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:24:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:41:42 +0100 I just uploaded a new silo package (1.4.14+git20120819-1) including these fixes

Bug#685245: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-18 Thread Julien Cristau
Package: silo Severity: grave X-Debbugs-Cc: David Miller da...@davemloft.net, debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Tags: upstream patch fixed-upstream Filing this as a bug so it doesn't get lost. Thanks for the heads-up, David. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:14:16 -0700, David Miller wrote

[PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-15 Thread David Miller
This generates an illegal instruction exception. This has a long history. For the first sun4v port of SILO in commit 494770a17eea7192d3242051e76f4da6d838e3a1 (SILO Niagara/SUN4V support) this code was removed entirely. But later this was found to regress older UltraSPARC boxes, so we put

Re: [PATCH] silo: Don't touch %tick_cmpr on sun4v cpus.

2012-08-15 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:14:16 -0700 (PDT) This generates an illegal instruction exception. Unfortunately, after some more testing, this needs a follow-on fix, included below and also committed to SILO git. Sorry for the confusion

silo error code

2012-02-26 Thread urodelo
Hello On my sparc ultra 10 with squeeze, when I boot kernel 2.6.32 (the latest in the repo) silo prompt shows the error code SI . If I boot old 2.6.18 it boots fine. What does exactly mean that silo error? How can I solve this problem? My system has separate /boot 93MB / is mounted on /dev

Re: New SILO available for testing

2012-02-01 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:13:28AM +, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2012-01-27, Jurij Smakov wrote: I've built a new SILO package, which contain upstream fixes for bug #655897 (failure to build from source with recent versions of e2fslibs). I would appreciate some early testing

Re: New SILO available for testing

2012-01-31 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-01-27, Jurij Smakov wrote: I've built a new SILO package, which contain upstream fixes for bug #655897 (failure to build from source with recent versions of e2fslibs). I would appreciate some early testing before I upload it to unstable. You can find the new package (both source

New SILO available for testing

2012-01-27 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hello, I've built a new SILO package, which contain upstream fixes for bug #655897 (failure to build from source with recent versions of e2fslibs). I would appreciate some early testing before I upload it to unstable. You can find the new package (both source and binary) at http

Re: silo and new kernel issue in lenny squeeze

2011-08-05 Thread urodelo
the upgrade of debian, and silo.conf has been automatically modified to load the new kernel (some years ago the one of lenny, some months ago the one of squeeze). When I boot the ultra10 with a new kernel, for ex 2.6.32, openboot loads, than at the prompt should appear SILO, but what I get

Re: silo and new kernel issue in lenny squeeze

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
months ago the one of squeeze). When I boot the ultra10 with a new kernel, for ex 2.6.32, openboot loads, than at the prompt should appear SILO, but what I get is SI and nothing more. As I've told before, with old 2.6.18, it works I am not an expert in this, but since nobody else has replied

silo and new kernel issue in lenny squeeze

2011-08-03 Thread urodelomutante
ago the one of lenny, some months ago the one of squeeze). When I boot the ultra10 with a new kernel, for ex 2.6.32, openboot loads, than at the prompt should appear SILO, but what I get is SI and nothing more. As I've told before, with old 2.6.18, it works (by the way, is there a way to chose

silo error: console stdout lacks device_type

2011-06-30 Thread Hartwig Atrops
with the silo message: console stdout lacks device_type and stops at the ok prompt (screen attached to th GFX). Booting with serial console works fine. Then I returned to the onboard graphics, everything ok again. Any idea? Thanks, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ

Re: Manual Install of SILO/Debian

2011-03-14 Thread brian m. carlson
(or amd64, depending on the hardware). SILO would not install on such a machine, nor would it be in any way functional even if you could. Sorry debian-sparc couldn't be of more help. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net

Re: Manual Install of SILO/Debian

2011-03-14 Thread A E [Gmail]
you. Solaris comes in a version for sparc and a version for i386. You'll need the i386 port (or amd64, depending on the hardware). SILO would not install on such a machine, nor would it be in any way functional even if you could. Sorry debian-sparc couldn't be of more help. Thanks Brian

Manual Install of SILO/Debian

2011-03-12 Thread A E [Gmail]
is, it's some custom built chassis with custom everything to create this appliance. b) OR, I was thinking that maybe I could partition the 2nd HDD while in Solaris, install Debian/SILO on it either through boot.img or some other way and then have it boot from this disk instead into debian

Re: Where is the BootLoader/Silo in a Dual-Boot Debian/Solaris System?

2011-01-20 Thread RR
understand this installation and tell me where does Silo/bootloader etc sit in this kind of a situation? AFAIK, sparc bootloader is called silo, and it's configuration file located under /etc/ : http://packages.debian.org/lenny/sparc/silo/filelist /etc/silo.conf Thanks for that. Yes, I knew

Where is the BootLoader/Silo in a Dual-Boot Debian/Solaris System?

2011-01-19 Thread RR
and was able to boot into it as well. So far, so good! However, I have two questions: a) While doing a check on something, I realised that my /boot is empty. Could anyone help me understand this installation and tell me where does Silo/bootloader etc sit in this kind of a situation? When I do

silo code error 1

2010-08-16 Thread philo
hi, i try to install squeeze debian on blade 1000 (2*750Mhz, 2 go ram, 2 * scsi hdd 38go, ethernet) beetween installation the blade load the microcodes on USB key. well the installation spend normaly, but when the blade try to install silo, there are the message error code 1 . i try to parted

Re: Report of latest SILO failure on Ultrasparc 10

2010-08-15 Thread Bob Wilkinson
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, In http://bugs.debian.org/589891 Axel Beckert reports that the latest SILO in sid (1.4.14+git20100228-1) does not work on his Ultrasparc 10 box. Can anyone with the same hardware confirm this? It works fine on my

silo append scsi parametres

2010-07-11 Thread philo
hi, i have installed on my sun blade 1000 ubuntu 8.04 upgrade to ubuntu 9.04, but i tried to parametre silo for scsi generic drivers. on my ultra 5 it 's easy , i just add : slio.conf // append=ide=nodma for ide hard drives. but i cannot add append=hda=ide-scsi for scsi hard drives. i have search

Re: errors silo

2010-06-03 Thread Howard Eisenberger
with the installation. Two other issues: First, the internal IDE cd-rom drive in the ultra 5 (secondary master) was not detected from inside the installer, so I installed from an external scsi cd-rom. Second, to get silo to boot I had to change root= in silo.conf from /dev/sdb2 (I also have

Re: errors silo

2010-06-01 Thread Howard Eisenberger
, the internal IDE cd-rom drive in the ultra 5 (secondary master) was not detected from inside the installer, so I installed from an external scsi cd-rom. Second, to get silo to boot I had to change root= in silo.conf from /dev/sdb2 (I also have a scsi drive sda) to /dev/hda2 Given these issues

Re: errors silo

2010-05-31 Thread philo
hi, at the first time i do : I did an expert install and when I got to tasksel, I didn't select anything (i.e. unselected standard). I try to install silo in the next step in the installation or if skipped that and chose to continue without silo, rebooting the CD in rescue mode, i chose /dev

Re: errors silo

2010-05-31 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:38:28PM +0200, philo wrote: hi, at the first time i do : I did an expert install and when I got to tasksel, I didn't select anything (i.e. unselected standard). I try to install silo in the next step in the installation or if skipped that and chose

errors silo

2010-05-30 Thread philo
hi, i try to install debian testing cdrom iso with version sqeeze and last... the programme silo cannot install .. i have errors ! 1- squeeze between install at rubrique choise and install sofware stay blocked at silo configuration. 2- last testing (i forgot the name, sorry) silo code error

Re: errors silo

2010-05-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-05-30, philo wrote: i try to install debian testing cdrom iso with version sqeeze and last... the programme silo cannot install .. i have errors ! 1- squeeze between install at rubrique choise and install sofware stay blocked at silo configuration. 2- last testing (i forgot

Re: errors silo

2010-05-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-05-31, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2010-05-30, philo wrote: i try to install debian testing cdrom iso with version sqeeze and last... the programme silo cannot install .. i have errors ! 1- squeeze between install at rubrique choise and install sofware stay blocked at silo

Re: New SILO version available for testing

2010-02-07 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:51:47PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, I've prepared a new version of SILO (1.4.14+git20100130-1) which fixes an FTBFS and some other bugs/warnings. One change which carries minor risk is a switch to using default GCC (in this case, gcc-4.4), so if you

New SILO version available for testing

2010-01-30 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, I've prepared a new version of SILO (1.4.14+git20100130-1) which fixes an FTBFS and some other bugs/warnings. One change which carries minor risk is a switch to using default GCC (in this case, gcc-4.4), so if you are in a position to test the new package, please do. New package

Re: SILO problems while installing lenny beta2

2008-10-19 Thread Jurij Smakov
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

SILO problems while installing lenny beta2

2008-10-18 Thread Jurij Smakov
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

Re: SILO problems while installing lenny beta2

2008-10-18 Thread Brian Thompson
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

New SILO on its way to unstable

2008-08-24 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, I've just uploaded new SILO (1.4.13a+git20070930-3) to unstable to fix the RC bug #495860. If you are running unstable, please upgrade to this version in the next couple of days and report any problems. Thanks. -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New SILO available for testing

2008-03-16 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, SILO is currently being built with a non-standard compiler (gcc-4.1), and we would like to transition to standard one (gcc-4.3) before the release. I've rebuilt SILO with gcc-4.3, the updated package is available at http

New SILO available for testing

2008-03-02 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, SILO is currently being built with a non-standard compiler (gcc-4.1), and we would like to transition to standard one (gcc-4.3) before the release. I've rebuilt SILO with gcc-4.3, the updated package is available at http://www.wooyd.org/debian/silo. If you have a chance, please try it out

Re: SunBlade2000 illegal instruction right after SILO

2007-11-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
them with one CPU only AFAIK. After a reboot the SILO is found. Return is pressed and immediately an illegal instruction is raised. Which Kernel are you trying to boot? I run into such things while trying to boot a SMP Kernel on non-SMP machines and the other way round. Also 2.6.18 seems to have

Re: SunBlade2000 illegal instruction right after SILO

2007-11-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, On Monday 05 November 2007 11:02:23 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: [...] After a reboot the SILO is found. Return is pressed and immediately an illegal instruction is raised. Which Kernel are you trying to boot? I run into such things while trying to boot a SMP Kernel on non-SMP machines

Re: SunBlade2000 illegal instruction right after SILO

2007-11-05 Thread Hamish Greig
and then chroot in and re-install Silo? Many thanks Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SunBlade2000 illegal instruction right after SILO

2007-11-03 Thread Steffen Moeller
to continue with the installation. We have a complete lvm-based file system on our disk. The update-initramfs was executed. After a reboot the SILO is found. Return is pressed and immediately an illegal instruction is raised. There is no ready Debian sparc machine at our disposal, which means

Re: SunBlade2000 illegal instruction right after SILO

2007-11-03 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
firmware-qlogic which allowed us to continue with the installation. We have a complete lvm-based file system on our disk. The update-initramfs was executed. Just because it may help with a different bug: Does the Blade run with one or two CPUs? After a reboot the SILO is found. Return is pressed

debian-installer sparc - reset silo installer behaviour.

2007-10-19 Thread s. keeling
saw in expert mode didn't say that silo really needed to rewrite the partition table RIGHT NOW. Once I finally (autopartitioning) told it to do the partitioning itself, it screamed just that. That's the problem I've been having. How to reset silo to square one? That's only offered in Guided

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