Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:28:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:43:21PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: A Sun
>
> > [Ubuntu installer] died at about 85% installed :(
>
> Those two sound more like hardware problems, if it happens so haphazardly?
>
> > SILO boots, kernel loads then fails saying /dev/hda2 isn't recognised as
> > valid
>
> Then this is not a SILO problem. What is hda supposed to be, IDE primary
> master? Do you have the initrd set up properly so that the IDE driver can be
> loaded?
>
hda is primary master, yes
> The kernel stanza in silo.conf should simply have an additional:
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.something
>
Can you post me a complete silo.conf so that I can see what the boot and
root arguments should be. I'm not sure what the first line in a
silo.conf should be: good worked examples would be appreciated.
> If you don't have the file, you can generate it with update-initramfs.
>
Thanks for this - Jim's point about video=atyfb:off is also very useful.
Andy
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