Re: Please test new SILO - problems with CDROM booting may be fixed

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Matthew Pease wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just tried the iso, no luck for me. Here is the last little bit of the 
> startup:
>
> [ ENTER - Boot install ]   [ Type "expert" - Boot into expert mode ]
>                           [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ]
> boot: expert
> Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
> Uncompressing image...
> Loaded kernel version 2.6.16
> Loading initial ramdisk (3037283 bytes at 0x17808000 phys, 0x40C00000 
> virt)...
> Illegal Instruction
> ok

Hi Matt,

Thanks for testing. The fix I've mentioned addresses the problem with silo
crashing much earlier in the boot process, so you are hitting something 
else here. I would recommend to try and netboot the machine, this usually 
allows to work around silo quirks, since then it's not involved in booting 
the kernel at all.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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