Re: Installed kernel crash on T5120
2018-07-16 20:50 GMT+02:00 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>:
> If you have 2.0.4-12 and not 2.0.4-12+sparc64, your klibc is broken. You
> can either boot into rescue mode, then chroot into the installed system
> and dist-upgrade the machine and then run update-initramfs -k all -u or
> reinstall the machine.
That was it. I had upgraded the system, but not done the
"update-initramfs -k all -u" bit.
After doing that in rescue mode, it booted just fine. Thanks :-)
> I guess that would be possible if we switch the installation media to use
> GRUB instead of SILO as its bootloaders. But this is still an item on my
> evergrowing TODO list.
Not a critical item, but it's a lot easier to find a USB stick than a blank
CD media and a working reader nowadays.
Next step - ZFS followed by trying to deboostrap a new install in a ZFS root :-)
Thanks for your help & cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
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