Bug 39912

Summary:	Install Gentoo 1.4_rc5 on SMP Sparc 20, won't boot off disk, not installing bootblock
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Buddington <jbudding>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sparc Porters <sparc>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeff Buddington 2004-01-30 15:09:12 UTC

Installed gentoo-smp per instructions.  Install SILO on hard disk.  Left one block at the beginning of the disk so that SILO would install bootblock. Everything looks good and can boot off CD.  Gentoo seems to be running GREAT when installing. NO MATTER WHAT I TRY, What disc or slice I try to make the system boot off of, it says does not appear executable.  Tried everything including all partitions on both discs.  Will not boot off the hard drive.  Have two four gig SUN 4.2 drives.  Tried making smaller separate boot partition.  Appears to NOT be installing the boot block.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.booted gentoo-smp from cdrom
2.EXACTLY followed install and partitioning recommendations
3.reset system to try and boot from disk

Actual Results:  
would not boot from any hard drive and would not boot from any partition on any
hard drive

Expected Results:  
should boot gentoo from hard drive

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-01-30 15:12:16 UTC

Please post the output of the following:

fdisk -l /dev/scsi/whateveryourdiscis/disc
cat /boot/silo.conf
ls -ldh /boot/yourkernelnamehere

Comment 2 Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 15:46:03 UTC

Need more information so we can proceed.  Feel free to re-open.