Ce jour Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Christian Leimer a dit: > simon raven wrote: > > > hi, > > > Hi! > > > been having a problem booting last few days. what used to work was > > booting via quik, but now all i get in OF "cannot OPEN > > /bandit/gc/mesh/sd@X:0" X being anything from 0 to 5 (the SCSI ID is 0). > > > > last time it booted successfully was 3 days ago, just the usual stuff, > > "boot Linux" in OF (i have "auto-boot? false") and blam boots into > > linux. but now, nothing happens, and it complains it cannot OPEN it. > > > > Whats the correct message? Maybe quik.conf was corrupted. see above ^^^^. the "cannot OPEN..." bit. > > last thing i know what happened was the machine froze as i was doing a > > db4.2_stat -h-- (mistyped a -h or something) on some bdb files. i hit > > the 3-finger salute (ctrl-cmd-power), it showed me the OF prompt, then > > couldn't OPEN anymore. > > > > the drive itself is fine, i can put it on the external bus (53c94) and > > it boots fine, but not the internal one (MESH). > > > > the machine is an 8500, with a newertech g3/336 (reported as 300) > > upgrade daughtercard, and an adaptec uw scsi card, and ati lt pro video. > > i wish these had 6 pci slots =). > > > > > First look at your /etc/quik.conf if all is like it should be. > Then reinstall the boot stuff on your drive. You can use quikconfig or look > man quik. everything is fine w.r.t. quik. i should know, the machine booted to linux using the external SCSI bus via quik. in this box, quik is in /boot, with symlinks there too, and a symlink to /etc(/quik.conf) so quik thinks /boot is /, and the /vmlinux* link in / are really in /boot. e.g.: /boot - quik.conf - second.b - first.b - vmlinux-foo1 - vmlinux-foo2 - @vmlinux -> vmlinux-foo1 - @vmlinux.old -> vmlinux-foo2 /etc - @quik.conf -> /boot/quik.conf very nice :). allows for an XFS (or anything else for that matter) /, and you just need a /boot of ext2: Filesystem Mount Megs Used Avail %used fs Type /dev/sdd8 / 295.3 207.4 87.9 70% xfs /dev/sdd7 /boot 38.7 17.8 18.9 51% ext2 tmpfs /dev/shm 26.2 0.0 26.2 0% tmpfs /dev/sdd12 /home 1317.0 465.9 851.1 35% xfs .... (documenting this here before i forget since i haven't posted it anywhere on my blog or wiki). > Hope this helps. thanks for your input, but it didn't :). i think the issue is more a hardware one than software. as to what it is, i *still* have no clue. i would much prefer having the boot drive on the internal bus, as that's the faster one - 10 MB/s vs. 5; not much better, but crucial for this box does - and i hate having uncracked nuts lying around (an expression i use for any difficult problem is and how i tackle it is "i'm gonna crack this nut!"). though i'm sure glad to be running linux again after 2+ days of mock os 9.2.2... :) thanks again, s/e > Bye Chris. -- "I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience." - Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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