On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:24:43PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:04:10PM -0400, Keven Haynes wrote: > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > I appreciate your help with this, but I'm still not able to boot my > > > system. Am I missing a key step anywhere? > > > > > > I downloaded the iso image you directed me to, and am booting from it. At > > > the "boot:" prompt I have tried "/sparc64 initrd=/root.bin" both with and > > > without the "ide=nodma" appendage. Either way, I'm getting the > > > > > > Loading initial ramdisk... > > > Fast Data Access MMU Miss > > > > If you are booting my netinst, just hit return. Don't put anything on > > the command line. > > The same thing happens when I just hit return.
Try seeing if you have the latest OpenBoot firmware. I've heard differing stories about some firmware not working correctly. Also, it's not that hard to setup rarp/tftp on another machine for netbooting. "apt-get install rarpd tftpd". The install docs tell you the specifics on adding an /etc/ethers entry for rarpd and how to name the tftpboot.img. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
