Re: SILO Fun (Was: Re: Seems to be working (Was: Re: Debian and IPX))
Mauricio declared on Saturday 29 November 2003 07:49 pm:
> At 13:30 -0500 11/29/03, Ben Collins wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:11:32PM -0500, Mauricio wrote:
> >>
> >> You mean this:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda
> >> /dev/sda1 1 102 49M ext3 /boot
> >> /dev/sda2 103 899 382M ext3 /
> >> /dev/sda4 900 6175 2534M ext3 /usr
> >> /dev/sda5 6176 8104 926M ext3 /home
> >> /dev/sda6 8105 8637 256M ext3 /var
> >> /dev/sda7 8638 9006 177M swap
> >
> >You do have a "Whole Disk" partition on sda3, right?
>
> Do I have to physically create one or it is assumed to be there?
You have to "physically create one".
> >If you are doing the /boot seperate, it really isn't supported
> >automatically unless you use the images I posted about. Otherwise,
> >you'll need to do this at a prompt before rebooting the install:
> >
> >cd /target
> >mv etc/silo.conf boot/
> >ln -s . boot/etc
> >ln -s . boot/boot
> >ln -s ../boot/silo.conf etc/silo.conf
> >cd /
> >silo -r /target -f
>
> How about if I then repartition the HD as follows:
>
> Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 0 8208 4038336 83 Linux native /
> /dev/sda2 8209 8741 261744 83 Linux swap swap
> (256MB) /dev/sda4 8742 9006 129888 83 Linux
> native /var (128MB)
>
> I did so and ended up having the very same problem. So, I dropped to
> the shell and did as you suggested above. I did not go that far:
On old (non-ultrasparc) machines, you cannot have a bigger than 1GB
partition that contains your kernel and silo.conf... which would be the
4GB / partition in your example below. I'd recommend you do something
like:
/dev/sda1 500MB /
/dev/sda2 256MB swap
/dev/sda3 (whole disk partition)
/dev/sda4 1500MB /usr
/dev/sda5 250MB /var
/dev/sda6 (what's left) /home
you can do that with the normal installer OR should be able to use your
original partitioning scheme (using a separate /boot) with Ben's
instructions above.
The messages below are trying to tell you that SILO can't boot off of
the partition because it extends past the first 1GB of the disk.
> SPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
> ROM Rev. 2.9, 48 MB memory installed, Serial #12648430.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:c0:ff:ee, Host ID: 57c0ffee.
>
>
> Rebooting with command:
> SCSI device 2,0 is not responding
> Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0 File and args:
> SILO Buggy old PROMs don't allow reading past 1GB from start of the
> disk.
Pat
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