Hi, Upon upgrading to silo-1.4.14_p20120226 earlier this week, I am no longer able to successfully run silo - what I get is: 'Fatal error: Second stage /boot/second.b has wrong size' I was able to work around this by downgrading to silo-1.4.14_p20100228 (along with downgrading e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs to 1.41.14, since the older SILO does not compile with e2fsprogs* 1.42). I would be curious, though, why the most recent SILO fails. Stejarel
Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/sparc/10.0/server, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-sparc64-sun4u-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 15:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r5 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.6 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --complete-graph=y" FCFLAGS="" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ncct.uottawa.ca/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://mirror.ncct.uottawa.ca/gentoo-portage" USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gcc64 gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 jpeg ldap modules mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline session snmp sparc ssl tcpd tiff truetype unicode xml xpm zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint mach64 mga r128 radeon sunbw2 suncg14 suncg3 suncg6 sunffb sunleo tdfx dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Please don't do that.
Please don't do what?
Try with latest silo, if you still have the issue please report it to the sparc kernel mailing list
Created attachment 569162 [details, diff] patch for sys-boot/silo-1.4.14_p20170829 It's still broken in current silo. This was a good one; the issue turns out to involve awk and multibyte characters. While building second.b, awk thinks it's dealing with non-ASCII characters rather than raw bytes. It winds up embedding a bad raw-binary length header into second.b unless '-b' is added to the awk command: # /bin/ls -l second.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54784 Mar 13 12:39 second.b # /bin/ls -l second.b | awk '{printf "%c%c%c%c",0,$5/65536,($5%65536)/256,0}' | xxd 00000000: 0000 c396 00 ..... # /bin/ls -l second.b | awk -b '{printf "%c%c%c%c",0,$5/65536,($5%65536)/256,0}' | xxd 00000000: 0000 d600 .... I think the only part of silo that even cares about that header is make_room_for_raid1() in silo/silo.c. So, it's likely that the bug didn't manifest for the handful of others that might have tried to figure this out :( The attached patch makes silo work for me. Setup: Sun T5220, /boot on ext2 RAID1, v0.90 MD superblock, boot partition starting at cylinder 2.
