[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora with no LVM - not booting

[penna at bb.com.br]

Hi folks,

        I first installed Aurora 2.99 (corona) in my Ultra-10 and it 
worked very well.
        After that I, reinstalled my Ultra-10 with Debian Sparc and I 
redimensioned the whole disk to not use LVM. The geometry is right now as 
follows:

f0000000 at localhost:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda2             0      1337  10739452+   1  Boot
/dev/hda3          1337      1586   2000092+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4          1586      2923  10739452+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda5          2923      9729  54669195   83  Linux native

        The /dev/hda2 is the Aurora 2.99 partition and the Debian root is 
mounted at /dev/hda4. 
        I managed to install Aurora. However, now I am not able to 
complete boot it. 
        By complete boot it I mean, the Aurora starts booting since my 
/etc/silo.conf (in the Debian patition) states the following:
f0000000 at localhost:~$ cat /boot/silo.conf
root=/dev/hda4
partition=4
default=Linux
read-only
timeout=100

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
        label=LinuxOLD
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
image=/boot/vmlinuz.aurora
        label=aurora1
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img.aurora
        root=/dev/sda2
image=/boot/vmlinuz.aurora
        label=aurora2
        initrd=/boot/initrd-aurora.img
        root=/dev/sda2

        The Aurora stops booting at the step it tries to mount the 
filesystems showing the message:

                Welcome to Aurora SPARC Linux
                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
Setting clock ....                                               [ OK ]
Loading default keymap ....                                      [ OK ]
Setting hostname ....                                            [ OK ]
No devices found
Setting up Logical Volume Management: No volume groups found
                                                                 [ OK ]
Checking filesystems
fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
                                                                 [FAILED]
*** An error occured during the file system check.
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
*** Warning -- SELinux is active
.... sniped

        My /etc/fstab, for Aurora, looks like this:
f0000000 at localhost:~$ cat /media/aurora/etc/fstab 
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 
1
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 
0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 
0
LABEL=/media/sda5       /media/dados            ext3    defaults        1 
2
LABEL=/media/debian     /media/debian           ext3    defaults        1 
2
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 
0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 
0
/dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 
0

        I have two Aurora labels, at the silo.conf, because for the second 
one (aurora2) I generated a new initrd.img using mkinitrd, from the 
Debian, in a hope to the new Aurora initrd.img does not comply about LVM. 
The first Aurora label uses the original initrd.img that is filled at the 
installation stage. 
        It does not matter which one I try booting (aurora1 or aurora2), 
they both failed with the exactly same message above.
        Googling a little I could find a similar problem here, but no 
solution:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-139931.html

        Any hints?

Thank you in advance.
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Ulisses de Sousa Penna
Analista de TI - Banco do Brasil
Fone: +55-61-3310-6320
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