Re: Ultra 30 Sarge boot problem
Hello.
Try fixing the boot-device variable in Open PROM, also google around a
bit for some information. I had this problems and it's really easy to
fix. I think you just have to change the device alias to point at the
'e' partition of your hard disk.
Alternatively, you can edit /etc/silo.conf and change the place where
the boot loader is being placed to make it go to the MBR of the disk
instead of a partition. Frankly, this is a more elegant and easy
solution because the boot loader really should be in the MBR anyways.
Also if "boot disk" works, your boot disk is properly called 'disk'
with the device aliasing. So perhaps just your boot-device variable is
set to something bogus; i.e., not to just 'disk'.
A little investigation will make it possible for you to fix it all, I
suspect. Just look at it and think a while and it will work. I had the
same problem on my SPARC and got it to work eventually.
--- Chris Andrew <member@jhandrew.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As mentioned before, I'm having problems booting Sarge. Jurij
> Smakov asked me to check devalias in openprom. I did this and found
> the following:
>
> disk and disk0 both point to ..../scsi@3/disk@0,0
> linux points to ..../scsi@3/disk@0,0e (note the 'e' at the end)
>
> When SILO tries to boot on power-up, it fails. This is because the
> alias
> appears to be incorrect. When I type boot disk, Sarge springs to
> life :-)
> ). Red Hat 6.2 didn't seem to have a problem with this, but Sarge
> seems to. Does anybody know how I can change this? Would I have
> to manually point the linux label to the disk path that works, or
> perhaps
> something completely different?
>
> Thanks for your anticipated help.
>
> Chris.
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