From: "David Bottrill" <david.bottrill@ntlworld.com> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:30:30 +0100 Message-ID: <LAEPKHGANHIFKPAGMGLCMEDLCJAA.david.bottrill@ntlworld.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Trap 3e
Hi Thorsten,
The Compaq drive may have been formatted as part of a Compaq array, so the
boot table / Boot Sector may have been rather strange, too be sure at one
point I totally overwrote the first few sectors on the disc to be sure. I
have tried allowed YAST to partition the disc automatically and performing
a manual partition, also I wrote SILO into the MBR. By the way I am not
running Solaris just Linux.
My gut feeling is that this is SUNs way of saying I haven't bought the disc
from them.
I have subsequently obtained a 1.6Gig SUN branded disc as sda and the Compaq
as sdb with /boot on sda1 all is now OK, I don't get the error message and
the Compaq drive is fully useable. I can live with this configuration so it
is not really a problem but I would like to get to the bottom of the
problem. In my last attempt at manual partitioning I created too small a
partition for /usr so at some stage I will trash the system and start again,
at which point I will try silo -f.
I have another question, I would like to use the SUN box to ultimately
replace my NT based proxy server, for this I need to obtain a second NIC to
connect to my cable modem. Are any of the cheap and cheerful PC variety PCI
cards compatible with the SUN and Linux, I tried an ASANTE DEC 21041 based
card but the driver failed to find the card.
Any ideas would be welcome.
Another slight problem I have discovered is with the X server. If I switch
to any console then back to X I get a black border around the edge of the
screen, If I drag a window over the black area then the correct desktop is
re-drawn, hardly a problem, but something that needs tidying up.
I know I have said this before but you guy's have done a great job and your
RC2 is far better than RH6.2 release version. Most of my problems have been
minor and certainly can be lived with, having the same version of Linux
running on both Intel and SUN is worth some slight inconvenience. I am
looking forward to the release version, any date yet? any idea when we might
see StarOffice GPL'd over to this platform ?
David
>
> > 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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