Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Hello all,
A long and tortuous tale. A Sun Blade 100 which had a Debian Sarge
installation on failed with initially lots of network errors
occurring in the logs. An attempted upgrade in place to Etch failed for
various reasons (mostly my user incompetence :( then the saga below
followed.) [snipped]
Can anyone share the magic needed to get SILO to boot on one of these
machines. Once we can boot it, we can amend silo.conf and carry on from
there. A sarge bare basic install from CD ROM is also feasible if
necessary.
Mine says:
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root=/dev/hda2
partition=1
default=Linux
read-only
timeout=100
### Note that for 2.6.18, the CD Rom needs ide=nodma or the boot process
### hangs at any one of several points where the CD is accessed.
### You can use hdparm to turn DMA back on for the HDD once the system
is up.
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
initrd=/initrd.img
append="video=atyfb:off ide=nodma" ### CDROM requires ide=nodma
image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
initrd=/initrd.img.old
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This was a clean etch install only a few days ago. The ide=nodma
business may be your problem
Hugh
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