Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:56:31 -0800 From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com> Message-ID: <20001120015631.C22890@gimp.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Boot problem with AXi machine
* Mike Nicewonger <twmaster@twmaster.com> [001119 14:43]:
> Well things have not been good, I shut the machine down last night after
> much delight in setting it up and seeing it work nicely. Now it won't boot.
> I get the following message:
>
> Warning: Fcode sequence resulted in a net stack depth change of 1
> The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
Hmm... run "printenv" at the PROM OK prompt and see what "boot-device"
is set to. Check that if it's a "disk#" in the front that the scsi id
matches in "devalias" what you see in a "probe-scsi". If not, or if
it's not set to a disk, you can change it with the "setenv" command.
> Now from past experience this tells me that the machine cannot find the boot
> partition or file it wants. I have tried pointing the PROM to the first
> partition and it does the same error message. Do I need to add a file
> argument? if so what?
Another possibility is that either the kernel or silo were not properly
installed. If the previous check doesn't work, boot off the CD and go
to a virtual terminal. Mount the root partition (and /boot under it if
it is a separate partition (which isn't necesary on an UltraSPARC)).
Look in /boot for vmlinux and in /etc for silo.conf... see if either is
missing.
I guess we'll go from there... and if this (the latter) is what is the
problem, then if you want to help diagnose the cause, we can fix it
before the next release. :)
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