Re: silo trouble with ext3

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I had a similar problem a long time ago, I created a small boot partition
at the beginning of the disk, ext2. The problem went away but I did not
figure out why.
ISTR there were issues with large disks at various times, for example the
Ultra 5/10 was only sold with 8Gb drives and there were issues at 32Gb.
But ICBW.


On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Meelis Roos wrote:

Short summary: silo can not find any files from my ext3. Was this
the problem recently discussed here about silo?

Debian unstable's silo 1.4.14+git20120127-1 and 110G ext3 filesystem.
The same machine worked fine for years, running all the kernels and
Debian unstable. Last successful reboot was less than a week ago, and
Debian was updated after that (probably updating silo package).
Today I compiled 3.3-rc4+git and rebooted to try it, and silo can not
find anything. silo itself loads but can not open neither /etc/silo.conf
nor any kernel image by direct name:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk  File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.14

Cannot find /etc/silo.conf (error: 4294967295)

Couldn't load /etc/silo.conf
No config file loaded, you can boot just from this command line
Type [prompath;]part/path_to_image [parameters] on the prompt
E.g. /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@3,0;4/vmlinux root=/dev/sda4
or 2/vmlinux.live (to load vmlinux.live from 2nd partition of boot disk)
boot: 1/boot/test
Allocated 64 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel

Cannot find /boot/test (error: 4294967295)

Image not found.... try again
boot:


Tried fsck.ext3 -f, did not help. Re-installed silo from netboot
chroot, did not help either.

This is Ultra 5 with OBP 3.31 (latest available), so should not have any
1G or 2G limits on boot partition?

Ideas?

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