Re: SILO question
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:59:15PM +0200, Markus Pfeifer wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> don't know what happened, but our sparcserver20 doesn't want to
> boot up correctly anymore. now i got it so far that when i type
> on the SILO prompt: linux root=/dev/sda1 at least it boots the
> kernel but panics with a weird error mesg:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> EXT2-fs: sd(8,1): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
> features
> Invalid session number or type of track
> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
>
> mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|old|nextstep|neststep-cd|etc
> etc...
>
> >>Warning<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is
> ufstype=old
> ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> Kernel Panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 08:01
> Press L1-A to return to the boot-prom
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> problem now is that i cannot find an option for SILO to specify
> the fstype ext3 (it's running Woody).
SILO doesn't need an option for that. Sounds to me like you are booting
a kernel that doesn't support ext3. At the SILO prompt type "ls /boot"
and make sure that you are booting the right kernel image.
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