From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "A. Eijkhoudt" Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 22:12:25 +0000 Subject: Desperate after upgrading OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 Message-Id: <42D04BC9.9060105@dhcp.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Hello all, I've upgraded my OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 and now my SUN won't boot anymore. Whatever I try at the 'ok' prompt has no effect, it keeps saying 'The file just loaded does not appear to be executable'. I've tried pretty much all versions of 'boot disk#:#' by now. The system in question is a SUN Ultra10, 300MHz, 320MB RAM, 40GB HD Maxtor 6E040L. Partition layout: Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1 101 50400 83 Linux native /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 101 79144 39837672 83 Linux native /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 0 79656 40146624 5 Whole disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 u 79147 79655 256032 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p1 1 101 50400 83 Linux native /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p2 101 79144 39837672 83 Linux native /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p3 0 79656 40146624 5 Whole disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3p4 u 79147 79655 256032 82 Linux swap As you can see, I can boot fine from CD... My SILO configuration: partition=1 root=/dev/hda2 timeout device=/dev/hda image=/boot/2.6.12 label=linux image=/boot/2.6.12-old label=old This is all correct: livecd ~ # ls /boot/ 2.6.12 System.map System.map-2.6.12-old fd.b generic.b isofs.b old.b silo.conf ultra.b 2.6.12-old System.map-2.6.12 boot first.b ieee32.b lost+found second.b silotftp.b Running SILO yields no errors... Can someone please help? There has to be a simple way of fixing this, and I really don't believe I'm the only one who has ever had this problem either. I've already spent 5(!) hours reading every single search result I could find on Google and on the Gentoo forums about this... My SUN is pretty much dead in the water right now, as I don't feel like booting from a LiveCD just to get it beyond the OpenBoot POST. Kind regards, Arnim Eijkhoudt