Message-ID: <005101c0591c$0a47ae00$04191fac@cidera.com> From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster@twmaster.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:17:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Cannot open root device
I just went through this myself with an AXi machine. One other solution is
to build a new kernel with the symbios driver included. Of course either way
works.
Many thanks to Uzi for his help getting that done.
For the record, I had the same problem with silo pointing to /dev/sda5 as
the root partition and had for sure used yast2.
Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thorsten Kukuk" <kukuk@suse.de>
To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Cannot open root device
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, Andre Belem wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm installing SuSE 7.0 on a UltraSPARC 60. I'm just using all defaults
> > (/boot on /dev/sda1, swap on /dev/sda2 and / on /dev/sda4).
> > The SILO installation is also default (I supposed!) but after
> > installing all machine, I can't reboot again.
> >
> > It looks like that the SILO is wrong (of course ! on my silo.conf root
> > is mounted on /dev/sda5, that doesn't exist).
>
> Could it be that you have installed with the old YaST1 ?
>
> > I worked already with RH 6.2 and I remember that I had an initrd file,
> > which is missing on SuSE. Could be that the problem ??
>
> Yes, you should have a /boot/initrd file. You have none ?
> Do you have a INITRD_MODULES="sym53c8xx" in /etc/rc.config ?
>
> If not, it look like YaST1 aborts before installing the silo.conf file.
>
> To fix the current solution:
>
> Boot into linuxrc and select "boot installed system".
> Then add INITRD_MODULES="sym53c8xx" to /etc/rc.config and run
> "mk_initrd". After this edit /boot/silo.conf and to be sure rerun
> "silo". Now you should be able to boot.
>
>
>
> --
> Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de
> SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg
> Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
>
>
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