Since my report (bug 203947) has been marked a duplicate of this one, I thought I'd chime in:
I netbooted, chrooted into my mostly installed system and performed the following: apt-get --purge remove silo then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get install silo Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: silo 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/179kB of archives. After this operation, 393kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package silo. (Reading database ... 15512 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking silo (from .../silo_1.4.13a+git20070930-1ubuntu1_sparc.deb) ... Setting up silo (1.4.13a+git20070930-1ubuntu1) ... SILO, the Sparc Improved LOader, sets up your system to boot Linux directly from your hard disk, without the need for a boot floppy or a net boot. Install a partition boot record to boot Linux from UUID=3cb47072-33de-49fd-aed6-d77ccea87723? [Yes] Creating small silo.conf and running silo. Config file error: Syntax error near line 1 in file /etc/silo.conf Error parsing silo config file /etc/silo.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/silo.conf partition=87723 root=UUID=3cb47072-33de-49fd-aed6-d77ccea87723 timeout=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only Note that SILO counts the lines in the config file starting at 0, so it looks like the problems with the auto-generated file are: 1) the "root=" line uses a UUID, and SILO doesn't understand UUIDs 2) vmlinuz lives in /boot/ if you don't have a separate /boot partition. So the correct path in this case would be /boot/vmlinuz If I again netboot/chroot, edit /etc/silo.conf, and change it to : partition=1 root=/dev/md0 timeout=20 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only My system will then boot. -- Install hangs on SILO using a LDom on a T5220 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194032 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs