Re: Desperate after upgrading OBP from 3.11 to 3.31

["A. Eijkhoudt" <penguin@dhcp.net>]

Perhaps this rings a bell for someone:

I just noticed something odd that might be the actual cause of the 
problem. I used to be able to netboot the SUN as well, just slam the 
image into /tftpboot on the TFTP server and done. However, now I get 
'Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss' no matter what image I try to boot 
(most notably, the flash PROM updates from SUN). Perhaps there is 
something set incorrectly in the OpenBoot I should look at?

Arnim.

Ben Collins wrote:
> Sorry. Didn't read far enough.
> 
> Only things that come to my mind is that it is not booting the sectory
> from /dev/hda (maybe some incorrect partition). Or you installed the
> incorrect flash upgrade for your machine.
> 
> Are you sure that 3.31 is the latest? I seem to remember there being a
> newer version than that for your type of Ultra. You can always try
> downgrading your prom back to the older version.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:54:10AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>Right now:
>>
>>gateway boot # cat silo.conf
>>partition=1
>>root=/dev/hda2
>>timeout\x10
>>device=/dev/hda
>>image=/boot/2.6.12
>>        label=linux
>>image=/boot/2.6.12-old
>>        label=old
>>
>>So, the same as listed below in my original posting.
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Arnim.
>>
>>Ben Collins wrote:
>>
>>>What's your silo.conf look like?
>>>
>>>On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 02:25:35AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>><snip>
>>>>>>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
>>>>>></snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As you can see, I can boot fine from CD...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My SILO configuration:
>>>>>>
>>>>>><snip>
>>>>>>partition=1
>>>>>>root=/dev/hda2
>>>>>>timeout\x10
>>>>>>device=/dev/hda
>>>>>>image=/boot/2.6.12
>>>>>>    label=linux
>>>>>>image=/boot/2.6.12-old
>>>>>>    label=old
>>>>>></snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is all correct:
>>>>>>
>>>>>><snip>
>>>>>>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
>>>>>></snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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
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>>>>>
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