From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "A. Eijkhoudt" Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:25:35 +0000 Subject: Re: Desperate after upgrading OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 Message-Id: <42D06AFF.5020206@dhcp.net> List-Id: References: <42D04BC9.9060105@dhcp.net> In-Reply-To: <42D04BC9.9060105@dhcp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Hi Ben, Thanks for responding. I have, but to no avail. I've tried running SILO with multiple exotic combinations such as -f and -u to force it to rewrite the bootblock for my Ultra. What I don't understand is how the boot sector could get corrupted in the first place. I've also tried putting the first partition back at 'Start = 0' now; no deal. Kind regards, Arnim Ben Collins wrote: > After booting from CD, rerun the silo command. Sounds like your boot > sector got corrupted, or you moved second.b on your filesystem without > rerunning silo. > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:12:25AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote: > >>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 >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >