ive installed gentoo linux sparc edition on to my sparcstation and it goes
to boot from the hard drive, scsi id 3, and it gives me the message "the
file does not appear to be executible". I cant figure out whats going on,
can anyone help?

While forming in a straight line, "Steve Colburn"
<surfsc@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

>ive installed gentoo linux sparc edition on to my sparcstation and it goes
>to boot from the hard drive, scsi id 3, and it gives me the message "the
>file does not appear to be executible". I cant figure out whats going on,
>can anyone help?

this is perhaps a long shot but i remember having seen something
similar on one of my systems...

it could be possible that you will have to use an argument for
booting, like "boot disk gentoo" from the OBP.
--
Claus Dragon <clauskick@mpsahotmail.com>
=(UDIC)=
d++ e++ T--
K1!2!3!456!7!S a24

I figured out what was wrong, i didnt know where the boot from prom was
looking at so i did a "setenv boot-device disk0:1" to load the boot
partition, that did the trick just right!


"Claus Dragon" <claus@ultima-dragons.org> wrote in message
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> While forming in a straight line, "Steve Colburn"
> <surfsc@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >ive installed gentoo linux sparc edition on to my sparcstation and it
goes
> >to boot from the hard drive, scsi id 3, and it gives me the message "the
> >file does not appear to be executible". I cant figure out whats going on,
> >can anyone help?
>
> this is perhaps a long shot but i remember having seen something
> similar on one of my systems...
>
> it could be possible that you will have to use an argument for
> booting, like "boot disk gentoo" from the OBP.
> --
> Claus Dragon <clauskick@mpsahotmail.com>
> =(UDIC)=
> d++ e++ T--
> K1!2!3!456!7!S a24

Hello,

> ive installed gentoo linux sparc edition on to my sparcstation and it
> goes to boot from the hard drive, scsi id 3, and it gives me the
> message "the file does not appear to be executible". I cant figure out
> whats going on, can anyone help?

What is the size of the boot partition ? what is the containt of your
silo.conf ? (/etc/silo.conf)
Does it look like this ? :

In french:
http://www.yannos.com/articles/sun/linux/
and google traduced:
http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools

Could you give me more info, please ?
here or by mail : yann (at) yannos (dot) com

--
@+ Yann Marigo
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