On 29/12/15 20:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>>> Still doesn't work really.
>>>
>>> Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of
>>> my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real
>>> hardware?
>>
>> Damn- can anybody remind me how to get at the OBP settings from inside
>> Solaris? I've got an Netra-20 reserved for this but it's auto-booting and I
>> don't have a USB Sun keyboard with a  Stop  key.
>
> eeprom
>
> Booted off pukka CD-RW. This very earliest step was something that Debian has
> frequently got wrong, so I think it's worth testing.
>
> Several messages "EXT2 superblock magic is wrong"

^^^^^^^^^^
I wrote a reordering patch to hide that. It's entirely cosmetic since the error
messages are a bit alarmist when they didn't need to be.
silo-1.4.14-iso-before-ext2.patch

    diff -up silo-1.4.14/second/file.c.orig silo-1.4.14/second/file.c
    --- silo-1.4.14/second/file.c.orig      2013-03-19 16:52:22.859860434 -0400
    +++ silo-1.4.14/second/file.c   2013-03-19 16:55:12.831856827 -0400
    @@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ extern struct fs_ops ufs_fs_ops;
     
     /* Array of our supported ops */
     static struct fs_ops *silo_fs_ops[] = {
    -    &ext2_fs_ops,
         &iso_fs_ops,
    +    &ext2_fs_ops,
         &rom_fs_ops,
         &ufs_fs_ops,
         NULL,

>From solaris (and later from linux (eeprom is part of the prtconf package for
linux))

    eeprom auto-boot?=false

setting this to false is usually enough to do the trick


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