Problem with UltraPenguin 1.2 ?

Problem with UltraPenguin 1.2 ?

[Bosko Radivojevic]

Hello

I've found UltraPenguin and I was very happy because of that :)

I have Ultra Enterprise 450, with one SCSI 4.5GB hdd. Root partition is in
/dev/sda1, and starts with cylinder 1.

When installation script want to install SILO I get error message:

Mount: Device or resource busy

What I have to do!? Please help me :)

Sincerely,
Bole

Re: Problem with UltraPenguin 1.2 ?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 03:39:48AM +0100, Bosko Radivojevic wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've found UltraPenguin and I was very happy because of that :)
> 
> I have Ultra Enterprise 450, with one SCSI 4.5GB hdd. Root partition is in
> /dev/sda1, and starts with cylinder 1.
> 
> When installation script want to install SILO I get error message:
> 
> Mount: Device or resource busy
> 
> What I have to do!? Please help me :)

Don't use UltraPenguin, it has been superceeded by Red Hat 6.0 /SPARC and
Red Hat 6.1 /SPARC which has been released lately.
Most of the features (with the exception of tape install I guess noone
besides myself used) were rolled into RH6.0/RH6.1, plus there are numerous
newer bugfixes and new features.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj
Linux version 2.3.18 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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Re: Problem with UltraPenguin 1.2 ?

[Bosko Radivojevic]

On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> Don't use UltraPenguin, it has been superceeded by Red Hat 6.0 /SPARC and
> Red Hat 6.1 /SPARC which has been released lately.
> Most of the features (with the exception of tape install I guess noone
> besides myself used) were rolled into RH6.0/RH6.1, plus there are numerous
> newer bugfixes and new features.

I've tried first with RH 6.0 for SPARC, but with that I couldn't even boot
up my SPARC.

Something is wrong in script that installs silo, or I missed something
with partitioning my disk. I tried to install silo by myself... :
(pressed ctrl-z in install script to switchto shell)

# /mnt/sbin/silo -r /mnt
Fatal error: Cannot open superblock on /dev/sda1
# cat /mnt/etc/silo.conf
timeoutP
partition=1
root=/dev/sda1
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.2.2.gz
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.2.img
        read-only

From my point of view, everything looks pretty fine.. but, somethin isn't
OK.. :)

So, I need help... Please :)

Re: Problem with UltraPenguin 1.2 ?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:05:41PM +0100, Bosko Radivojevic wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> > Don't use UltraPenguin, it has been superceeded by Red Hat 6.0 /SPARC and
> > Red Hat 6.1 /SPARC which has been released lately.
> > Most of the features (with the exception of tape install I guess noone
> > besides myself used) were rolled into RH6.0/RH6.1, plus there are numerous
> > newer bugfixes and new features.
> 
> I've tried first with RH 6.0 for SPARC, but with that I couldn't even boot
> up my SPARC.

If you download 6.1, then this should be a non-issue.

> 
> Something is wrong in script that installs silo, or I missed something
> with partitioning my disk. I tried to install silo by myself... :
> (pressed ctrl-z in install script to switchto shell)
> 
> # /mnt/sbin/silo -r /mnt
> Fatal error: Cannot open superblock on /dev/sda1

Do:

/mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt
/sbin/silo

instead, because it tries to access /dev/sda1 outside of /mnt which probably
does not exist.

Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj
Linux version 2.3.18 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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Re: Problem with UltraPenguin 1.2 ?

[Bosko Radivojevic]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> If you download 6.1, then this should be a non-issue.

Of course, I will do that :)

> /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt
> /sbin/silo

Thanx, helped :)

Bye