Silo problem (SPARC potato)
Hello --
Recently upgraded a Sun Ultra-10 (sun4u) machine from Solaris 2.5.1 to
Debian slink. After the install I upgraded to potato (apt-get upgrade)
and then installed the kernel-image-2.2.13-sun4u. When it installed
the new version of Silo it replaced my /etc/silo.conf with a file filled
with comments and nothing relevant to my system configuration. When I
rebooted, I got:
boot: cannot find /vmlinuz (unknown ext2 error)
To get it to start up I had to type (not exactly obvious!):
1/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13
After this I replaced the upgraded /etc/silo.conf with the older version,
but rebooting still didn't work automatically. Here's what's in my
/etc/silo.conf:
partition = 1
root = /dev/hda1
timeout = 100
image = /vmlinux
label = linux
read-only
image = /vmlinux.old
label = old
read-only
And here's df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 384M 16M 348M 4% /
/dev/hda7 774M 95M 639M 13% /var
/dev/hda8 2.6G 216M 2.3G 8% /usr
/dev/hdb1 3.6G 2.4G 1.0G 70% /home
Can anyone suggest what I've done wrong? I tried running silo, even though
the SPARC FAQ led me to believe this was unnecessary. Did the /etc/silo.conf
configuration change after the upgrade? I'm afraid the documentation didn't
really help me much.
Thanks to those who replied to my earlier query about running Debian on
a SPARC platform. I have a warm feeling now that my mail and web server
is running Debian, and other than the booting problem, I'm quite happy.
Chris
--
Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643
930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu
University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/
Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle
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