SILO woes

Discussion:

SILO woes

Jason Gauthier

2003-11-20 19:50:31 UTC

Hey Everyone,

I've just installed Aurora on a Sun UltraSPARC-II Enterprise 450.
I had a few installation issues, but nothing I couldn't deal with. Until
now.

After the install is complete, the system is rebooted.
I'm faced with "The file loaded does not appear to be executable.".
"Okay,", I think to myself, "the bootloader isn't installed."

So I booted off the CD, into the text mode (since I can't switch to the
shell on F2 in GUI mode).
I mknod sda1 and sda2 and mount them up.

I then tried -various- SILO options. The one I thought would get me working
was this:
Silor -r /disks -f

But, no. I then did some digging and found a few poeople who said '-r'
doesn't work right.
So, I mknod the devices again, booted up, and 'chroot'ed myself and ran silo
-f.

Again, no go. I'm running out of options, and it takes *so* long to boot
to the point where I can get to silo.

Does anyone have any ideas at all?
Thanks!

Jason

Frank Kannemann

2003-11-21 01:14:43 UTC

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Long boot time? Maybe your diag-switch? is set to true and diag-level is set
to max?

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gauthier" <***@lastar.com>
To: <aurora-sparc-***@lists.auroralinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] SILO woes

Post by Jason Gauthier
Hey Everyone,
I've just installed Aurora on a Sun UltraSPARC-II Enterprise 450.
I had a few installation issues, but nothing I couldn't deal with. Until
now.
After the install is complete, the system is rebooted.
I'm faced with "The file loaded does not appear to be executable.".
"Okay,", I think to myself, "the bootloader isn't installed."
So I booted off the CD, into the text mode (since I can't switch to the
shell on F2 in GUI mode).
I mknod sda1 and sda2 and mount them up.
I then tried -various- SILO options. The one I thought would get me working
Silor -r /disks -f
But, no. I then did some digging and found a few poeople who said '-r'
doesn't work right.
So, I mknod the devices again, booted up, and 'chroot'ed myself and ran silo
-f.
Again, no go. I'm running out of options, and it takes *so* long to boot
to the point where I can get to silo.
Does anyone have any ideas at all?
Thanks!
Jason
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Hans Witvliet

2003-11-21 10:08:25 UTC

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Hi Jason,

Had something simarly on a SS5,
When i typed just "boot" or <CR> it gave me also the non-execcutable error.
Did you try at the ok-prompt: "boot disk 0" or "boot disk 3" ? It worked for
me.
In that case it is an eeprom setting...

Hans

Jason Gauthier

2003-11-21 14:10:03 UTC

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Greetings,

My SPARC knowledge is very novice. I'm not sure what you mean or how it
applied to my problem. Sorry!

It takes about a full minute before I see the "Initializing Memory" startup
messages. Then it boots the CD, and I go through all the menus, load the
SCSI stuff (another minute or two)

When all is said and done, it's about 10 minutes to get to the shell prompt.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:15 PM
To: Aurora user discussion
Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] SILO woes
Long boot time? Maybe your diag-switch? is set to true and
diag-level is set to max?
Frank
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] SILO woes

Post by Jason Gauthier
Hey Everyone,
I've just installed Aurora on a Sun UltraSPARC-II Enterprise 450.
I had a few installation issues, but nothing I couldn't

deal with. Until

Post by Jason Gauthier
now.
After the install is complete, the system is rebooted.
I'm faced with "The file loaded does not appear to be executable.".
"Okay,", I think to myself, "the bootloader isn't installed."
So I booted off the CD, into the text mode (since I can't

switch to the

Post by Jason Gauthier
shell on F2 in GUI mode).
I mknod sda1 and sda2 and mount them up.
I then tried -various- SILO options. The one I thought would get me

working

Post by Jason Gauthier
Silor -r /disks -f
But, no. I then did some digging and found a few poeople

who said '-r'

Post by Jason Gauthier
doesn't work right.
So, I mknod the devices again, booted up, and 'chroot'ed

myself and ran
silo

Post by Jason Gauthier
-f.
Again, no go. I'm running out of options, and it takes

*so* long to boot

Post by Jason Gauthier
to the point where I can get to silo.
Does anyone have any ideas at all?
Thanks!
Jason
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Jason Gauthier

2003-11-21 14:11:26 UTC

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Thanks Hans,

I've tried the following:

Boot disk
Boot disk:a
Boot disk:b
Boot disk1:a
Boot disk1:b
Boot disk2:a
Boot disk3:b

(My boot disk has 2 partitions)
None of these worked. I did not try the number, I'm assuming that is the
disk or partition as well?

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:08 AM
To: Aurora user discussion
Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] SILO woes
Hi Jason,
Had something simarly on a SS5,
When i typed just "boot" or <CR> it gave me also the
non-execcutable error.
Did you try at the ok-prompt: "boot disk 0" or "boot disk 3"
? It worked for me.
In that case it is an eeprom setting...
Hans