From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kerios-1 Chris Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:10:10 +0000 Subject: Ultra 1 Creator 1.1.9 Install Problem Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hello all: I am new to the list as of today so I hope this question hasn't already been answered and is a bother to anyone.... I have an Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3d with 512 Mbs memory, and two internal 2.1Gb drives. I don't have a floppy disk. My problem is this. I am trying to install Ultrapenguin1.1.9 and its not working. I am doing a tftp/FTP install from another Sparc in our office where all the distribution is. I have installed Ultrapenguin1.1 and all goes well. The 1.1.9 install goes perfect up until the SILO part of the install takes place. The boot net of "tftpboot.img" goes well the beginning install goes well as far as collecting disk information/IP information/package information. The FTP and install of "all" the packages goes well. The selection of the X server install transfers and goes well. Time question goes well. I choose not to create a rescue disk because I don't have a floppy..... The next step is where the problem is. The screens asking about where to put SILO. I have told it to put it in the Master Boot Record and on the disk partition and the result is the same. After I tell it ok, I get a screen which says there was a problem and do I want to retry, go back or see the menu. I switch to the virtual screens and there is nothing on any of them which gives me any indication of where the problem is. There are no error messages at all. All I know is that SILO isn't getting installed properly and I can't get the machine to boot. When I boot all I get is the "S" in SILO but I think this may be left over from the successful Ultrapenguin 1.1 install??? Some other information: I am pretty sure I've partitioned all my disks properly. Disk1 sda1 500 Mbs starting in cylinder 1 not 0 per FAQs for root sda2 500 Mbs swap sda3 The whole disk, also per FAQs sda4 The remainder, I call it /opt Disk2 sdb1 The whole disk called /usr sdb3 The whole disk per FAQs Silo version is 0.8.5 I have also tried to run SILO manually by switching to vt2 and it has errors as well. First with not being able to find second.b which I corrected by setting up a link from /boot to file which was in /mnt/boot. Then it errored out not being able find silo.conf which was on the system in /mnt/etc where I built it using vi. It said that it must be on a "root" directory which I thought it was, but it said it wasn't so I corrected this by setting another link to /mnt/etc/silo.conf to / and that message went away. Next it said it couldn't open /dev/sda1 and I could not get past this point.....Keep in mind I can install the other Ultrapenguin just fine.....Tried it again today, no problems with the same disk organization, etc. Dead End for me, any tricks I could think of, and my knowledge!!! Can anybody help me out there??? It would be very much appreciated... Thanks ahead of time Chris