Hi Ben,
Thanks for responding. I have, but to no avail. I've tried running SILO
with multiple exotic combinations such as -f and -u to force it to
rewrite the bootblock for my Ultra. What I don't understand is how the
boot sector could get corrupted in the first place. I've also tried
putting the first partition back at 'Start = 0' now; no deal.
Kind regards,
Arnim
Ben Collins wrote:
After booting from CD, rerun the silo command. Sounds like your boot
sector got corrupted, or you moved second.b on your filesystem without
rerunning silo.
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:12:25AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote:
Hello all,
I've upgraded my OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 and now my SUN won't boot
anymore. Whatever I try at the 'ok' prompt has no effect, it keeps
saying 'The file just loaded does not appear to be executable'. I've
tried pretty much all versions of 'boot disk#:#' by now. The system in
question is a SUN Ultra10, 300MHz, 320MB RAM, 40GB HD Maxtor 6E040L.
Partition layout:
<snip>
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc (Sun disk label): 16 heads,
63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1 101 50400
83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 101 79144 39837672
83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 0 79656 40146624
5 Whole disk
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 u 79147 79655 256032
82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 (Sun disk label): 16 heads,
63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p1 1 101
50400 83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p2 101 79144
39837672 83 Linux native
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p3 0 79656
40146624 5 Whole disk
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p4 u 79147 79655
256032 82 Linux swap
</snip>
As you can see, I can boot fine from CD...
My SILO configuration:
<snip>
partition=1
root=/dev/hda2
timeout=10
device=/dev/hda
image=/boot/2.6.12
label=linux
image=/boot/2.6.12-old
label=old
</snip>
This is all correct:
<snip>
livecd ~ # ls /boot/
2.6.12 System.map System.map-2.6.12-old fd.b generic.b
isofs.b old.b silo.conf ultra.b
2.6.12-old System.map-2.6.12 boot first.b ieee32.b
lost+found second.b silotftp.b
</snip>
Running SILO yields no errors... Can someone please help? There has to
be a simple way of fixing this, and I really don't believe I'm the only
one who has ever had this problem either. I've already spent 5(!) hours
reading every single search result I could find on Google and on the
Gentoo forums about this... My SUN is pretty much dead in the water
right now, as I don't feel like booting from a LiveCD just to get it
beyond the OpenBoot POST.
Kind regards,
Arnim Eijkhoudt
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