Re: Cannot boot from disk on ss20 running woody

[Christian Jönsson <c.christian.joensson@telia.com>]

well, using cat an the /proc system, I get this information out of the 
ss20 box:

chj@fw:~$ cat /proc/openprom/options/boot-device
'disk net'
chj@fw:~$ cat /proc/openprom/options/boot-file
chj@fw:~$


so perhaps I need to set these to, hmm, what?

Cheers,

/ChJ

digihans wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Perhaps you set it correctly, but you did not mention it:
> What is the default boot device  (eg drive) setting of the open boot-prom?
> If it does not point to where the primary bootloader is located (I guess in your
> case sda...)
> It will try to execute someting else, not necesarily sparc binary code.
> I had the same message a while ago after i reinstalled the system, and forgot to
> set this variable.
>
> You can check it under linux with the eeprom command, or with printenv at the
> open-boot-prom level.
>
> Hans.
>
> Christian Jönsson wrote:
>
>
> > Ingo T. Storm wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > Hej.
> >
> >
> > > > I have woody installed on both an ss20 and an ss5. On the ss5 I boot >
> > > from disk but that does not work onth ss20 @Illegal instruction@
> > >
> > >
> > > > something. I boot the ss20 from the rescue disk.
> > > Could it be that vmlinux is not within the first 1GB? Seems it has to be
> > > there for silo/openboot to be ably to load it.
> > Nah, don't think so. This is the putput of df on my ss20:
> >
> > chj@fw:~$ df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda4             718M  564M  118M  83% /
> > /dev/sda1              19M  3.5M   14M  19% /boot
> > /dev/sdb1             986M  359M  577M  39% /usr
> > /dev/sdc1             688M  482M  172M  74% /var
> > /dev/sdc2             640M  457M  150M  76% /home
> > /dev/sdd1             984M  324M  610M  35% /share1
> > /dev/sdd2             982M  785M  147M  85% /share2
> > chj@fw:~$
> >
> > and this is the content of /boot
> >
> > chj@fw:~$ ls /boot/
> > C0A80102.SUN4M
> >           fd.b       lost+found  tftpboot.img
> > System.map-2.2.19-sun4cdm  first.b    old.b       ultra.b
> > cd.b
> >                   generic.b  second.b    vmlinuz
> > config-2.2.19-sun4cdm
> >    ieee32.b   silotftp.b  vmlinuz-2.2.19-sun4cdm
> > chj@fw:~$
> >
> > and finally this is my silo.conf:
> >
> > chj@fw:~$ less /etc/silo.conf
> > partition=1
> > root=/dev/sda4
> > timeout=100
> > image=1/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > read-only
> > chj@fw:~$
> >
> > So really, I'm out of ideas. If you have any, please help me out.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > /ChJ
> >
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