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It's been a while since I booted Linux on my Ultra, but did you...

- - place /silo.conf in the root directory?
- - compile ext2 support into the kernel?

Can you boot from the livecd and give us the contents of your silo.conf
and /etc/fstab?


brant williams
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Bryan wrote:

> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:36:26 +0800
> From: Bryan <arlleester@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-sparc] help for silo
>
> Hello,
>
> I tried to install Gentoo linux 2007.0 on a Sun Ultra 60.When rebooting,the
> error message occurs as follows:
>
> Cannot find /silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)
> .......
>
> Pls help me.
> Thanks!
>
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I placed silo.conf in the /etc directory according to the installation
manual,but I ever tried to place a copy to the root directory,and it doesn't
work yet.

I am sure i compiled ext2 support into the kernel.But I formatted the root
partion as ext3.

The contents of silo.conf:

partition = 1
root = /dev/sdb1 # I installed gentoo onto the second scsi disk
timeout = 10

image = /boot/kernel-2.6.20-r4
label = linux

The contents of the /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb4 /usr ext3 noatime 0 2
/dev/sdb5 /var ext3 noatime 0 2
/dev/sdb6 /home ext3 noatime 0 2

openprom /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0





>
>
> It's been a while since I booted Linux on my Ultra, but did you...
>
> - - place /silo.conf in the root directory?
> - - compile ext2 support into the kernel?
>
> Can you boot from the livecd and give us the contents of your silo.conf
> and /etc/fstab?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Bryan wrote:

> I placed silo.conf in the /etc directory according to the
> installation manual,but I ever tried to place a copy to the root
> directory,and it doesn't work yet.
>
> I am sure i compiled ext2 support into the kernel.But I formatted
> the root partion as ext3.

Did you run 'silo' at the command prompt and make sure everything is
found okay?
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gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list

Yes,it's ok.

Did you run 'silo' at the command prompt and make sure everything is
> found okay?
>
> gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org <gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org> mailing list
>
>

The booting message is as follows:

Boot device:disk File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.13

Cannot find /silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)

Couldn't load /silo.conf
No config file loaded,you can boot just from this command line
Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt
E.g. /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0;4/vminux root=/dev/sda4
or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of boot disk)
boot:

Any body can tell me what to do?
2007/8/25, brant williams <brant@tnarb.net>:
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> It's been a while since I booted Linux on my Ultra, but did you...
>
> - - place /silo.conf in the root directory?
> - - compile ext2 support into the kernel?
>
> Can you boot from the livecd and give us the contents of your silo.conf
> and /etc/fstab?
>
>
> brant williams
> FCAA CDCA 20BC 3925 D634 F5C4 7420 6784 4DEB 6002
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Bryan wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:36:26 +0800
> > From: Bryan <arlleester@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
> > To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: [gentoo-sparc] help for silo
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I tried to install Gentoo linux 2007.0 on a Sun Ultra 60.Whenrebooting,the
> > error message occurs as follows:
> >
> > Cannot find /silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)
> > .......
> >
> > Pls help me.
> > Thanks!
> >
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Now I can go into the next step.I have 2 scsi disks,when booting,the first
disk is default.

But now the system shows"booting Linux...",and dead.

Try this:

mv /etc/silo.conf /boot
ln -s /boot/silo.conf /etc

On 14:16 Mon 27 Aug , Bryan wrote:
> The booting message is as follows:
>
> Boot device:disk File and args:
> SILO Version 1.4.13
>
> Cannot find /silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)
>
> Couldn't load /silo.conf
> No config file loaded,you can boot just from this command line
> Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt
> E.g. /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0;4/vminux root=/dev/sda4
> or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of boot disk)
> boot:
>
> Any body can tell me what to do?
> 2007/8/25, brant williams <brant@tnarb.net>:
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> > It's been a while since I booted Linux on my Ultra, but did you...
> >
> > - - place /silo.conf in the root directory?
> > - - compile ext2 support into the kernel?
> >
> > Can you boot from the livecd and give us the contents of your silo.conf
> > and /etc/fstab?
> >
> >
> > brant williams
> > FCAA CDCA 20BC 3925 D634 F5C4 7420 6784 4DEB 6002
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Bryan wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:36:26 +0800
> > > From: Bryan <arlleester@gmail.com>
> > > Reply-To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
> > > To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
> > > Subject: [gentoo-sparc] help for silo
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I tried to install Gentoo linux 2007.0 on a Sun Ultra 60.Whenrebooting,the
> > > error message occurs as follows:
> > >
> > > Cannot find /silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)
> > > .......
> > >
> > > Pls help me.
> > > Thanks!
> > >
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