Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 install problem

[Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>]

> I was able to get tftpboot.img to boot and the install procedure appeared
> to run ok.  However, I could not boot from my Linux drive (sd@2,0).

The strange thing is that SILO did not install itself properly.
BTW: Where does the unexpected message in 3 comes from? When it was printed?
I haven't seen it ever, nor I know about SILO/kernel to ever print something
like that.

> I got an "unexpected message in 3" error.  tftprescue.img did not work
> either.

This is known bug and I have it fixed in my copy.

>   Rebooting the install and switching to the shell VC, I poked
> around.  I mounted the Linux file systems (they look fine), I ran
> silo manually:
> 
> 	silo -r /mnt -i /boot/ultra.b -u
> 
> resulted in a complaint that it could not open the super block on
> /dev/sdc1.  The device entry does exist in /mnt/dev, and seems to
> be correct.  fdisk sees the proper partition table, and sdc1 starts
> at cylinder 0.

This is a known bug and will be fixed in SILO 0.8.5.
The issue is that SILO 0.8.4 does not like stale symlinks in /dev, so if you
want to do it with 0.8.4, you should from the second VC poke like this:

chroot /mnt
mount -t proc /proc /proc
silo -f

> 
> Any clues?  Should I try your new CD-ROM image?
> 

I haven't put it there yet, hopefully today.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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