RE: Debian on Sparc 4 - woody to sarge
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Steve Lewis wrote:
I have since tried to upgrade my kernel to the
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc32_2.4.27-2_sparc.deb package but had a
kernel panic, unable to mount root fs error on the reboot. I think this
could be a silo.conf error. I did add the initrd line to silo.conf but
I didn't include a root=/dev/sda1 line. I had a look around for a
decent (full and complete) example of a silo.conf file but couldn't find
one on the net.
The manual page accessible with 'man silo.conf' command contains extensive
documentation. Here's my working silo.conf:
root=/dev/hda2
partition=1
default=Linux
read-only
timeout=100
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
initrd=/initrd.img.old
Note that in my configuration /boot is a separate partition (/dev/hda1),
which is also default (set by partition=1), so paths to the files are
given relative to that partition. So setting image=/vmlinuz when the
default partition is 1 will actually try to load file vmlinuz from the
root of partition 1, which translates to /boot/vmlinuz.
Also, if your silo.conf is broken, you still should be able to boot by
typing something like this at the boot prompt:
linux image=1/boot/vmlinux-2.4.27-2-sparc32 initrd=1/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-sparc32 root=/dev/sda1
If you are still having trouble, post your silo.conf and we should be able
to figure it out.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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