What's your silo.conf look like? On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:25:35AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote: > 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 > >>- > >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > >
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