Re: Report of latest SILO failure on Ultrasparc 10
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In http://bugs.debian.org/589891 Axel Beckert reports that the latest
> SILO in sid (1.4.14+git20100228-1) does not work on his Ultrasparc 10
> box. Can anyone with the same hardware confirm this? It works fine on
> my machine and so far I haven't seen any failure reports like this.
Hello
I saw a similar message at startup after a dist-upgrade. The boot
sequence terminates before SILO starts with an MMU error.
> If you are willing to test, simply upgrade to the latest sid and
> report whether your machine still boots. A report of a fresh install
> on Ultrasparc 10 would also be an interesting data point (note that
> due to a partitioner bug all partitions are currently created in size
> multiple of 16G - see http://bugs.debian.org/579948 for details).
I did resurrect the machine with an installation CD. I did see that
the original /etc/silo.conf had been replaced, though
/boot/silo.conf appeared as before the upgrade.
Steps I took to rescue were...
1. Boot from installation CD and enter rescue mode.
2. Set language and keyboard.
3. Use previous swap partition and mount previous linux partition.
4. Execute a shell.
5. cp /target/boot/silo.conf /target/etc/silo.conf
6. type "silo --help"
7. Then "silo -r /target -f" # note from memory - caveat user!
8. reboot
> Best regards.
> --
> Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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