Created attachment 343403 [details] SILO man page. Supported filesystems Sections 4.b (Default Partitioning Scheme Table) and 8.a (/etc/fstab sample) of the Sparc Handbook specify ext4 as the filesystem used on the root partition, though, according to SILO man page, the bootloader only supports ext2, ext3, ufs, romfs or iso9660 filesystem. Interestingly, Section 4.d (Code Listing 4.1) specifies a filesystem creation script for ext2. Suggestions: * Include information on the bootloader-supported filesystems in Section 4.b and provide a reader with a choice (which typically would narrow up to either ext2 or ext3). * Correct Sections 4.b (Default Partitioning Scheme Table) and 8.a (/etc/fstab sample) to specify either ext2 or ext3 filesystem making instructions consistent with Section 4.d (Code Listing 4.1).
I think silo supports ext4 too, as it uses the ext2fs library (from e2fsprogs, which includes support for ext2, ext3 and ext4) for its file system handling. Also, the git repo [1] where silo's code is in shows ext4-related updates. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/silo.git I'll see to it that the sparc handbook follows the same logic in 4.d.
Fixed in CVS
