Hi. On Tuesday 09 March 2004 09:32, James Nelson wrote: > All right. I've also tried booting from floppy, only to get an "illegal > instruction". Then I tried a netboot, to get the same problem - it > downloads the boot file, and then halts with an "illegal instruction" > error. I know it's not a massive hardware failure (I've got Solaris 9 > running on it) and I'm just confused. > > Just out of curiosity, is it possible to cross-compile a kernel? I'm > just about ready to try a custom kernel out of sheer frustration, but > only have x86 machines available right now.
Never tried to cross-compile, no need to :-) I just checked one of my SS20. I have two sets of debian CD-Roms, 3.0r0 and 3.0r1. I attached an external SUN CD-Drive (narrow), externally terminated, inserted the first CD of both sets. Then I switched on the SS20, STOP-A'd and typed 'boot cdrom'. Both CD's boot without any problem into the debian release notes screen. Which CD version did you use? About netboot: I would like to try that, too. Do I have to convert the kernel in any way (I have seen something like this on MIPS), or can I use it just as it is? Regards, Hartwig