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Re: Help please to debug failure to boot from disk on ss20 running woody



Thanks for your reply. I'll check into this eventually I guess. But,
the problem is solve by having

setenv boot-device /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@1,0

in the boot prom instead of the sd@3,0 pointing at /dev/sdb1. However
this got to be like this is a mystery to me, all the disks were there
when I installed potato some time ago. 

Cheers,

/ChJ


On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:39:07AM +0100, Christian Jönsson wrote:
> > I have a SPARCserver 20 that I run an up to date woody on.
> > 
> > When I try booting from disk I instantly get an
> > Illegal Instruction.
> > 
> > <#0> ok boot disk
> > Boot device_ /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0 File and
> > args: (then I can't see more on my serial port access)
> > Illegal Instruction
> > 
> > If I try to make a boot diskette using mkboot, it barfs
> > on no rdev commmand and claiming there's no /boot/boot.b
> > (should there on sparc systems?)
> 
> rdev is x86 specific I believe.
> 
> > I can only boot my system from an install floppy disk 2.2.19-cdm
> > (but I haven't tried a network boot yet...)
> 
> If you can boot from there, drop to a shell and do this:
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /target
> chroot /target /bin/sh
> silo -f
> exit
> umount /target
> 
> If silo is setup correctly, this should boot again for you.
> 
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