Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 06:19:49PM +0200, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > > Hi guys (and girls), > > Another problem with potato is booting the tftp-images (2.2.8, 2.2.9, > > 2.2.10) on my IPC and SS1+. The slink-version (2.2.1) works fine... > > the error: illegal instruction....... > > I haven't been able to get my sparc 1+ to do tftp boots. It continually > asks for the tftp image, and the server starts the send, but the ss1+ > never tries to accept it. So I haven't tested out those images yet.
Hello Ben, I did some trial with 2.2.10 on my SparcClassic (sun4m, 24MB, 1GB HD, CG3+grayscale 19" monitor) using sun4cdm/tftpboot.img: got several Framing Errors while downloading the tftp image but the image was bootable (I never got these messages on further installs so I guess it was a transcient problem with my network cable). DHCP is working now. Installing kernel, drivers & base from NFS and netfetch was ok. System rebooted cleanly. Several non fatal errors at boot time: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/eicon.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/hisax.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/icn.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sc.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/t1isa.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/t1pci.o chmod: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory Still problem with apt & non-US mirror site: cannot specify one other than non-us.debian.org even in manual mode (bug already filed). First install of base-files told me to replace /etc/motd conf file. Not so good. I guess it was because out of sync 2.2.10 boot-floppies. After a reboot, xdm login as root, twm fails to give me the debian menu, so there is no way under X to launch an xterm. Need to switch to a VT then run "xterm -display :0 &", then switch back to X :((( Installing the menu package solves this problem. I will file a bug against twm... > > Here aswell: I'll look into this in about a week or so... > > Thanks, I'de appreciate more feedback on the IPC problem. So far I haven't > noticed anything on any of my sun4c's. It's a no go on my sparc2 too (64MB, serial console, 420MB HD): ok boot net Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],c00000 File and args: 207a00 TILO Booting Linux... System hangs ;(( I then tried to build old image format using piggyback. No more success ;(( Now I'm trying to boot with nfsroot method: ok boot net nfsaddrs=192.168.1.7 nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/tftpboot/debian-sparc-root Houra, system boots up... Even though I got the following error messages at boot time: init started: BusyBox v0.43 (2000.03.31-03:43+0000) multi-call binary modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep (No such file or directory) cannot create /dev/tty4: error 19 dhcp autoconf from dbootstrap does not work: system hangs; need to Break and reboot ;(( Might be a problem with eth0 already configured by kernel? Manual configuration of the interface still works. Further installation is successful :))) Sorry, I don't have time to do more tests. It's time to go bed now ;)) I don't know why tftpboot images are not working on sun4c ;(( Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.