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Re: How to boot SUN T5220?



On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:22:13PM -0300, Flamarion Jorge wrote:
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> On 05/09/2011 01:46 PM, Ivan Jager wrote:
> > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:57:50AM -0300, Flamarion Jorge scribbled:
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> >> On 05/05/2011 08:56 PM, Flamarion Jorge wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I am the Flamarion Jorge and I'm from Brazil.
> >>>
> >>> I joined this list for two reasons:
> >>>
> >>> 1 - I understand very little about the SPARC architecture, which must
> >>> have an installed Debian and it works well.
> >>> 2 - I really want to report a successful installation for staff of the DI
> >>>
> >>> So here we go
> >>>
> >>> Today all afternoon here in Brazil (GMT -3) I tried unsuccessfully to
> >>> get a boot with Debian installed on SUN T5220.
> >>>
> >>> Initially I did a normal installation using a traditional partitioning
> >>> using EXT3 and SWAP.
> >>>
> >>> After some reading on the Internet I saw that it was necessary to have a
> >>> primary partition in UFS and EXT2 format, and has a partition table with
> >>> the label SUN.
> >>>
> >>> Well, I tried to do this manually, without success. I tried to leave the
> >>> DI guided partitioning, without success. I tried, tried and tried .....
> >>> I read a lot, but unfortunately I can reach the end of successful
> >>> installation, with all the hardware detected and functional, but I can
> >>> not boot from a ILOM.
> >>>
> >>> The only way I could access my Debian on SUM T5220 was through the
> >>> rescue mode of DI.
> >>>
> >>> So after all this saga, I'd like a hint of you on how to make Debian
> >>> boot properly SILO from the ILOM.
> >>>
> >>> This machine is at my disposal, so I can try any hint that you want to
> >>> post so we can report a successful installation of for the DI guys and
> >>> the staff of the SPARC port.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you very much
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi again,
> >>
> >> Can anyone give me a hint to help start the SILO?
> > 
> > Yes, but sorry it's going to be rather obvious since you didn't
> > go into detail as to what the problem was. Go to openfirmware
> > (the ok prompt) and type "boot disk" (or whatever is needed to
> > boot of the disk where you installed silo). Then, (this is the
> > important part) observe what *does* happen. If you can't figure
> > out how to fix it, it would be easier to help if you actually
> > tell us what happened. If there is an error, you may want to copy
> > and paste it. If there is no output whatsoever, you would want to
> > say that. If it only prints "S" you would want to say that. It's
> > a bit hard to guess what went wrong if all you say is that it was
> > unsuccessful.
> > 
> > As for the SUN disklabel, you seem a bit confused about that, but
> > it may just be the translation from Portuguese. SUN does not use
> > the same partitioning scheme as the DOS partitions you are
> > probably used to. It's not that you need a partition with a label
> > of SUN, it's that you should be using a sun disklabel rather than
> > a DOS partition table. But if you're using the installer to
> > partition the disk, that shouldn't be a problem as it will do the
> > right thing. If you're partitioning manually and want more
> > details check man fdisk or
> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/BSD_disklabel but
> > I don't think that's actually the problem.
> > 
> > Ivan
> > 
> > 
> 
> First thanks for trying to help me.
> 
> My problem is: I can not load the silo from the "ok prompt"
> 
> When i install Debian, using guided partitioning of Debian Installer,
> and the installation finished successfully, after the first reboot I get
> the following message:
> 
> {0} ok boot disk
> Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0  File and args:
> Bad magic number in disk label
> Can't open disk label package
> ERROR: boot-read fail
> 
> 
> Can't open boot device

Try 'boot disk1'.
 
> 
> For the record, before I run the partitioning, I deleted the partition
> table of disks with the command "dd" (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> count=2 bs=512, sdb too)
> 
> On this machine I have 4 HDD, 2 SCSI drives with a pair of drives
> configured with RAID 1 on each controller.
> 
> The disks are detected by the Debian Installer as sda and sdb, sda I'm
> using to install the system.
> 
> I'll be grateful for any additional information you can provide me, and
> I apologize for not sending the correct information in the first message.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> - -- 
> Flamarion Jorge
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