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From: "Clonch
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-sparc] Help w/ 2006.0 on Ultra5
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:41:10
Message-Id: 0C6AA2145B810F499C69B0947DC507810BDD726D@oh0012exch001p.cb.lucent.com
1 A separate boot partition is not needed, and the first partition doesn't have to be root. Make sure the /dev/BOOT line in your fstab is commented out.
2
3 -Chris
4
5 -----Original Message-----
6 From: Chris Nolan [mailto:geekz4rent@×××××.com]
7 Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:11 PM
8 To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
9 Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Help w/ 2006.0 on Ultra5
10
11 Sorry for the cruft, but I'm having an issue and I'm not exactly sure
12 how to solve it.
13
14 I have an old Ultra5. It came without a hard drive so I dug up an old
15 100g drive and installed that in it. (Jumpered as Cable Select) Added
16 in my quad ethernet card as this will be a firewall once I get it
17 working.
18
19 When I partitioned it, I created the Sun Disk Label and made the following.
20
21 /dev/hda1 / (512mb) ext2
22 /dev/hda2 swap (512mb) swap
23 /dev/hda3 whole disk
24 /dev/hda4 /usr (15g) ext3
25 /dev/hda5 /var (15g) ext3
26 /dev/hda6 /home (rest) ext3
27
28 I followed the 2006.0 doc and when it comes to the edit the fstab
29 portion, this is where I get confused. In there it wants a line for
30 /dev/BOOT but I don't have a /boot partition. Should I have created a
31 /boot partition? I was under the impression that the first partition
32 needed to be / .
33
34 I get through the doc and make my fstab without putting in a /boot
35 line (removed it) and reboot the machine and it comes up saying "The
36 file just loaded does not appear to be executable."
37
38 However the kernel file in /boot is executable. And is under the
39 3.5m for a 2.4 on 64bit system.
40
41
42 Can someone please point me in the right direction as to what I'm
43 doing wrong?
44
45 Many thanks.
46 Chris
47
48 livecd ~ # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot
49 total 4002
50 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 525858 Jul 14 09:59 System-2.4.32-sparc-r6.map
51 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jul 13 19:17 boot -> .
52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jul 14 10:50 fd.b
53 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 14 10:50 first.b
54 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Jul 14 10:50 generic.b
55 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 Jul 14 10:50 ieee32.b
56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7112 Jul 14 10:50 isofs.b
57 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3449968 Jul 14 09:59 kernel-2.4.32-sparc-r6 <<<<<
58 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65024 Jul 14 10:50 second.b
59 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 243 Jul 14 11:01 silo.conf
60 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62436 Jul 14 10:50 silotftp.b
61 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 14 10:50 ultra.b
62
63 livecd ~ # more /mnt/gentoo/boot/silo.conf
64 partition = 1 # Boot partition (= root partition)
65 root = /dev/hda1 # Root partition
66 timeout = 150 # Wait 15 seconds before booting the default section
67
68 image = /boot/kernel-2.4.32-sparc-r6
69 label = Gentoo Linux 2.4.32-r6
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] Help w/ 2006.0 on Ultra5 Chris Nolan <geekz4rent@×××××.com>