Re: Fwd: "File does not appear executable" on SS20.
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:56:28PM +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
> Same again, I'm afraid. A year ago, I had Sarge running on an SS20, so I
> know it can work. Something is obviously not right. The other strange
> thing is that I have two 2.1 Gb drives, and whatever I try to do with the
> 2nd drive, it only lets me use about 250 megs. I have removed all the
> partitions on it, and tried several times.
I've come upon this issue as well. Parted completely misinterpreted the
disk geometry. The only way I got around it is to use good ol' fdisk.
The only tricky part is getting is during the install: I put it on an
ftp server and wget it.
I used etch when I hit this. Did try sarge as well, did not get it to
install.
Martin
> On 04/07/07, Matthias Kreis <Matthias.ML@remasec.ch> wrote:
> >
> >Hello Chris
> >
> >
> >disk:a means the first partition. You can tray to boot from disk:c. From
> >this partition debian is booting on my sun servers.
> >
> >Just use: boot disk:c
> >
> >
> >Regards Matthias
> >
> >
> >> I'll have a look, but as I say, Solaris was booting fine, on power-up,
> >> and nothing has changed.
> >>
> >> printenv reads:
> >>
> >> "boot-device disk:a disk" in the second column it says "disk net"
> >>
> >> Does this help?
> >>
> >> Thank,
> >>
> >> Chris.
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: *ayo jegede* <ayo@instantemail.t-mobile.co.uk
> >> <mailto:ayo@instantemail.t-mobile.co.uk> >
> >> Date: 04-Jul-2007 12:42
> >> Subject: Re: "File does not appear executable" on SS20.
> >> To: Chris Andrew <cjhandrew@gmail.com <mailto:cjhandrew@gmail.com>>
> >>
> >> You may need to set your OBP for your boot device.
> >>
> >> Run <ok>printenv at the boot prom and check which device is set for
> >> boot-device
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Ayo
> >> ------------------
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> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: "Chris Andrew" < cjhandrew@gmail.com <mailto:cjhandrew@gmail.com>>
> >> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:00:39
> >> To:debian-sparc <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> >> <mailto:debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>>
> >> Subject: "File does not appear executable" on SS20.
> >>
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> I have been trying to install Sarge on a SPARCstation20. The install
> >> goes fine, but when I reboot into my new installation, I get the OBP
> >> message "File does not appear executable".
> >>
> >> BTW, I haven't tried Etch because I haven't got any spare CD's to burn
> >> it to.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Chris.
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