Re: [suse-sparc] Trap 3e

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 05:35:54 PDT

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    Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:35:54 +0200
    From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
    Message-ID: <20000905143554.B32227@suse.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Trap 3e
    

    Hi,

    On Wed, Aug 23, David Bottrill wrote:

    > Can anyone help?
    >
    > I have just changed hard disks in my Ultra 30 from a SUN branded 4.3 GByte
    > drive to a Compaq branded (Western Digital) 9.1GByte drive. On first boot I
    > get the message "Trap 3e" if I just type "boot" the box will boot normally.

    I had this, too. But I doesn't remember the fix. Do you play with Linux
    and Solaris on the same disk ? Or was there a msdos partition table on
    the harddisk ?

    You should try "silo -f". But as far as I remember, the only solution was
    to clear the first sector on the hard disk and make a new installation.

    > I have almost bottomed out a SILO / YAST2 issue, it would appear that if you
    > let Yast2 configure SILO either automatically, it screws up a number of
    > things that stop it re-booting next time. Among other things it incorrectly
    > sets the kernel path in silo.conf i.e.it assumes that /boot is part of the
    > root filesystem not a separate partition. If you dont so this then SILO
    > stops at the first "S", not surprising as I assume it can't find the kernel.
    > If you edit silo.conf, correct the paths and run silo the box will start to
    > boot then gives an error when it tries to mount the root partition (did not
    > note the error, sorry) so obviously something elso is screwed.

    Did you use the automatic partitioner or the customize partitoner from
    YaST2 ? I never saw this before.
    What was the YaST2 output, where it will install silo ?

     Thorsten

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