Hey there, I know my way around Debian on the Intel platform, however I'm a newbie when it comes to Sparc64. I have an Ultra60 with a SCSI subsystem; the cdrom I'm trying to install from has SCSI ID 5. OpenBoot version is 3.23, Memory is 512MB. NVRAM is in mint condition. The Image I'm attempting to install is: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-neti nst.iso - It's said to install stable on the website. The SCSI Controller is properly identified during the boot process (devices are identified ok, HD + CDROM are listed)
Now the actual problem occurs even before it gets to the installer, namely it can't mount the root fs from the CD VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 00:00 Please append a correct root="" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to ... Appending root=/dev/scd0 doesn't do the trick, any pointers? (Note: I've done some quick googling and read other mailing list posts: I'm *not* trying to append the param on the OpenBoot prompt, but from the silo prompt, as in linux root=/dev/scd0) Also, the machine has two NICs, an onboard happymeal 10/100 (which wasn't working under Solaris - kept telling me about a missing link although the network hardware was fine and tested with another intel based machine) and one I just bought on eBay (X1033A). Both get detected fine when booting the Debian installer cd, as eth0 and eth1, however, both get identical MACs - is this correct ? Please forgive my stupidity and these - probably - idiotic questions, but everybody's a beginner sometime ;)