Bill Swingle wrote:
> > On the CD itself at /boot/vmlinux.sun4u or /boot/vmlinux.sun4cdm depending
> > on your architecture type.
>
> It is *NOT* booting off the CD. I have an (almost) complete install on
> the hard disk and have booted the system MANY times WITHOUT the cd in
> the drive.
What I'm asking you to do is to boot from the CD, specifying root=, so that
you can get back into your installed files and examine things or change
things. I'm wanting to verify that this step worked. I was assuming you
were doing this.
When you do boot w/o the CD, it could be using the wrong silo.conf file,
or no silo.conf file, or maybe the right one that has an error in it.
I cannot say because I can't see what's there.
> > /vmlinux root=/dev/hda1
>
> This does not work. It bitches about "improper syntax" or something if I
> use anythying but "linux" as a kernel name.
It may need something more specific than just the path. I would have to check
on that. Presently I haven't even gotten the CD to boot due to having only a
serial console to work from.
> > It might be in /boot or /.boot ... look there and see what's there.
>
> The hard disk does not contain a /boot and /boot only contains a few
> *.db executables.
Check in /.boot
I'm wonding what this stuff in /boot is.
> I KNOW what /etc/silo.conf has in it! I made it! After the install
> /etc/silo.conf did not exist. I made the /etc/silo.conf out of the
> /etc/silo.conf.sample that came with the install.
It looks like (according to the silo.conf.5 man page) the syntax for direct
access to a file is a little more complex than I thought. You'd have to
read the man page to figure out which is right for you. But this is only
a workaround for a supposedly bad silo.conf file. Assuming you make it
correctly, then something else is wrong, like the kernel is in the wrong
format. When you compiled the kernel, what make command target did you do?
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