Re: [aurora-sparc-user] Boot problems on Sun Ultra 60 Elite 3D
Ken Roser <[email protected]>
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Since I've received no response on this issue on the "user" list, I'm continuing this thread over on the developers list. Also, is there a formal bug reporting mechanism for Aurora? Ken Roser wrote: > As a follow-up on this I'd like to report that Aurora 1.0 did not fix > the problem with Aurora not booting on a Sun Ultra 60 in what appears > to be a problem related to the geometry of the drive. > > If there's anything else that can be done to diagnose this please let > me know. > > Ken Roser wrote: > >> Is there anything else I can try to get past this problem? Are the >> post 0.42 fixes available anywhere to try out? >> >> Ken Roser wrote: >> >> >> >>> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:42, Ken Roser wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Following are the differences between the two machines >>>>> >>>>> BAD GOOD >>>>> Seagate ST39173W (~9 GB) Seagate ST381404LC (~18 GB) >>>>> UltraSPARC-II 360 MHz UltraSPARC-II 450 MHz >>>>> 1152 MB RAM 1024 MB RAM >>>>> >>>>> I wonder now if the disk geometry of the "bad" machine is related >>>>> to the problem. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> It could be. There were some bugfixes made to catch things like that, >>>> but it might have been done post 0.42. I've made so many changes in >>>> the >>>> last 3 months that I can't recall which fixes were pre 0.42. :/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> (I've typed all this data in by hand so if anything seems unusual, >>>>> let me know) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you for typing all this in. It looks quite odd. Does >>>> /etc/silo.conf look the same on both machines? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> silo.conf is the same on both machines: >>> >>> timeout=50 >>> default=linux >>> partition=1 >>> >>> image=/vmlinuz-2.4.18-1.000sparc >>> label=linux >>> initrd=/intrd-2.4.18-1.000sparc.img >>> read-only >>> root=/dev/sda2 >>> >>> >>> >>>> Also, run e2label /dev/sda2 on both machines, they should both return >>>> "/". If the bad machine doesn't, it could be it... but I would have >>>> expected it to fail long before it hit init. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> On both machines, e2label does return "/" >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thats a very odd error. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Any other ideas? >>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > aurora-sparc-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxpower.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user > >