[debian-sparc] SILO:Booting IPC
I also have a Sparcstation IPC, but can't seem to get it to boot from hard
disk.
I'm using Debian 2.2.18pre21. It will boot from a modified rescue floppy and
then use the hard disk just fine. When I try booting from the PROM prompt
to the HD I keep getting a "SCSI device is not responding" error. If I set
the boot-from PROM environment variable to fd(), with the modified boot
floppy in the drive, it comes up and then uses the HD and not the floppy.
The HD is SCSI TARGET ID 4 unit 0 to the hardware, and setup as /dev/sda1 to
linux. There are no other drives and I only want to boot Linux. The 2 GB
HD has a swap partition, the rest is a native linux partition.
What do I set the PROM boot-from variable to boot directly from HD without
the floppy? After the Debian install, it put a symbolic link called vmlinuz
in the root dir of sda1 pointing to "boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21-sun4cdm". Is
there something special I need to do to the HD to make it bootable? I
configured the HD using the Debian partitioning tool on the floppies.
I've tried the following from the PROM prompt:
boot sd(0,4,0)vmlinuz
boot sd(0,4,0)boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21-sun4cdm
boot sd()vmlinuz
Also, once the PROM boot-from variable is set to what it should be, what
should the silo.conf file have in it to just go from power-on to running
Linux, no intermediate stopping at the SILO prompt?
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Landwehr [mailto:landwehr@imsdd.fhg.de]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:11 AM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Cc: suse-sparc@suse.com
Subject: [suse-sparc] SILO:Booting SunOS
Hello everybody on the list,
i've a SparcStation IPC (sun4c arch) with three operating systems on it:
Debian Linux, SuSE and SunOS.
Dual booting the two Linux OS with SILO works fine.
SILO resides on /dev/sda1 (SCSI Disk 1 with ID 1, LUN 0)
SunOS 4.1.3 Kernel vmunix resides on /dev/sdb1 (SCSI Disk 2 with ID 3,
LUN 0)
My OpenBoot Version is 2.4
The following error occur:
When i type
boot /sbus/esp/sd@1,0
on the OpenBoot Prompt, then SILO comes up
I wish to boot SunOS and type on the SILO prompt
/sbus/esp@0,80000/sd@3,0;/vmunix
* (wait...it seems that the kernel is loading :)
Memory address not aligned
>
and it falls back to the OpenBoot Prompt.
Have i something missing there (maybe in the Prom ?)
Or could someone send me a working silo.conf configuration file which is
capable to boot Linux and SunOS as an example?
Please ask me if you need more information (e.g. setenv, my silo.conf)
Any hints will be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Matthias
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