Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5
Glad to hear that dude, hopefully it all works out with your install. As far
as the keyboard there is a way to remap keys once you are all up and running,
did the keyboard work fine before... what kinda of a msg is it giving.
--Roman
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006, John wrote:
> Thanks Frans that did the trick for booting into my 2.6.17-2 kernel (I must
> have typed something incorrectly into silo.conf) but I now have a totally
> stuffed sun keyboard! :-( By trial and error I managed to find the keys to
> type "root" and the pw. Interestingly I can ssh as root into the sun box and
> my pc keyboard has no problems.
>
> As a further sweet and sour result, my Qlogic FC card was found by the
> kernel but it wants some firmware.
>
>
>
> On 9/20/06, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> >
> >On Tuesday 19 September 2006 06:17, John wrote:
> >> I think I'm so close I can smell it but I still need a helping hand,
> >> please.
> >
> >Here's the first bit of my working silo.conf:
> >$ cat /boot/silo.conf
> >partition=1
> >message=/boot/message.txt
> >root=/dev/hda1
> >default=linux
> >read-only
> >timeout=100
> >
> >image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-sparc64
> > label=linux
> >
> >I don't have a separate /boot partition obviously.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >FJP
> >
> >
> >
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