RE: SILO won't run
For some reason my Sparcstation 20 won't boot from the boot floppies, or from the ISO of disk 1 of the full Debian install. It only boots from this ghetto mini-sparc image.
I hit on the idea of switching to the console to run silo and see if it gave any better error output, and it does. It says "silo: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by silo)." So, the versions of silo and libc.so.6 included on this CD are incompatible... COOL!
Next I hit on the idea of trying the version of silo included with the full install that I have now completed, minus the final running of silo. My disk layout is as follows:
/dev/sda1: 10M /boot partition
/dev/sda2: 17G / partition
/dev/sda3: 300M swap partition
So I mounted sda2 to /target and sda1 to /target/boot Then I did chroot /target Now when I run silo, it says "Fatal error: your /boot/second.b is located above the magic 1G boundary from the start of the disk." How can that possibly be if /boot starts at sector 1 and is only 10M!?
This is driving me crazy. Help!
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Owen B. Mehegan
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Johnson [mailto:dj@david-web.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:53 AM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: SILO won't run
On Thursday 11 September 2003 15:43, Owen Mehegan wrote:
> I'm not sure which version of the Debian install this is, I'm using the
> mini-sparc image that I found here:
> http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/
>
> In any case, the issue with SILO comes up _during the install,_ so right
> now I'm stuck. The install wants to run SILO so the system can be bootable,
> but that won't run. For some reason it also will not create a boot floopy.
> Since I'm in the midst of an install, apt-get doesn't seem to be present,
> so I can't take your suggestion of updating and checking. Any other ideas?
Is it possible to finish the installation without installing SILO, then boot
your installation using a boot disk and then try what I suggested?
It seems you have a duff package set with the wrong version of either SILO or
glibc. You could try contacting whoever it is that distributes the mini-ISO
image and see if they can replicate & fix the problem.
If possible it might be an idea to try an official full ISO image - at least
it is (almost) guaranteed to work.
Regards,
David.
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