On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:05:03AM +1000, Jamie Lenehan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > > > I just tftpbooted the images from > > > > > > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ > > > > > > The standard boot images would crash while booting. > > > > > > > That's helpful. I found that the stock images were not recognized by > > the OpenBoot firmware. Not exactly a crash, but neither were they > > successful. > > Oh, the boot image at the above site doesn't support the NIC's on X1.
It didn't even get that far. The firmware downloaded the image and then said it was invalid. > I removed the HDD and put it in another machine and loaded the > basedebs.tar, drivers.tgz, rescue.bin files manually. I then > tftpbooted the boot disk and installed from the HDD. The extra > drivers (again from above site) included a tulip driver which does > work and can be used to install everything else, although it will > order the NIC's in reverse order, so eth0 is network port 1 and eth1 > is network port 0. Well that's a bit hardcore. Haven't we gotten past this behavior, yet? > > because that's where solaris put it. I don't have the machine, so I > > cannot reprint it here. I know that I only had two partitions, 1 and > > 3. 1 is most of the disk and 3 has about 1G for swap. > > Hmmm... That doesn't make sense. I thought 3 had to be the entire > disk? If you look at my partition table above 3 is the entire disk, > so 1, 2 and 4 actually overap with 3. Why would Linux care about partition three being the whole disk? I can imagine that Solaris might. All I did was replace partition three, which was swap on Solaris, with a Linux swap partition. I then converted the first partition to the reset of the disk. > This machine is a: > > Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 400MHz), No Keyboard > OpenBoot 4.0, 640 MB memory installed, Serial #50737376. > > and as of two minutes ago I have it running: > > 2.5.70 #3 Sun Jun 15 03:08:48 EST 2003 sparc64 GNU/Linux That could be part of the problem. I was running linux-2.4.20. The machine I had was a 500MHz model.
