I am not sure what magic is needed. I know that this little box can netboot Solaris 10 just fine and I have that working. I tried to drop in the Debian netinst ISO file and the machine did try to fetch it. However it is way too large and the firmware has no ability to process a 300MB file that way.
I tried to dd the iso image to a secondary disk drive and then boot it. That failed strangely :
# dd if=deb.iso of=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0 661128+0 records in 661128+0 records out # # uadmin 2 0 syncing file systems... done Program terminated ok devalias disk /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0 rtc /pci@1f,0/isa@7/rtc@0,70 usb /pci@1f,0/usb@a flash /pci@1f,0/isa@7/flashprom@1f,0 lom /pci@1f,0/isa@7/SUNW,lomh@0,8010 i2c-nvram /pci@1f,0/pmu@3/i2c@0,0/i2c-nvram@0,aa net1 /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5 dload1 /pci@1f,0/ethernet@5:, dload /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c:, net0 /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c net /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c cdrom /pci@1f,0/ide@d/cdrom@3,0:f disk3 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@3,0 disk2 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0 disk1 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@1,0 disk0 /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0 ide /pci@1f,0/ide@d floppy /pci@1f,0/isa@7/dma/floppy ttyb /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,2e8 ttya /pci@1f,0/isa@7/serial@0,3f8 ok boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0 Res LOM event: +2h52m42s host reset etting ... Processor Speed = [Speed Jumper = 5] 500 MHz Baud rate is 9600 8 Data bits, 1 stop bits, no parity (configured from lom) Firmware CORE Sun Microsystems, Inc. @(#) core 1.0.18 2002/05/23 18:22 Software Power ON Verifying NVRAM...Done Bootmode is 0 MCR0 = 36a0bc04 MCR1 = c0804000 MCR2 = ff0bbbb MCR3 = 3ff Ecache Size = 256 KB Clearing E$ Tags Done Clearing I/D TLBs Done Probing memory Done MEMBASE=0x60000000 MEMSIZE=0x10000000 Clearing memory...Done Turning ON MMUs Done Copy ROM to RAM (154720 bytes) Done Orig PC=0x1fff0007edc New PC=0xf0f07f34 Processor Speed=500MHz Looking for Dropin FVM ... found Decompressing Client Done Transferring control to Client... Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0 Probing upa at 1f,0 pci Probing upa at 0,0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (256 Kb) Loading Support Packages: kbd-translator Loading onboard drivers: Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7 isa dma rtc power SUNW,lomh serial serial flashprom Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3 pmu i2c temperature dimm dimm dimm dimm i2c-nvram idprom motherboard-fru ppm beep fan-control lomp Probing Memory Bank #0 256 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #1 256 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #2 256 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #3 256 Megabytes ChassisSerialNumber 51592229 Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 7 Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 3 Probing /pci@1f,0 Device c ethernet Probing /pci@1f,0 Device 5 ethernet Probing /pci@1f,0 Device a usb Probing /pci@1f,0 Device d ide disk cdrom todm5819 Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #51592229. Ethernet address 0:3:ba:13:3c:25, Host ID: 83133c25. Environment monitoring: disabled Executing last command: boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0 Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0 File and args: Evaluating: boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0 Can't open boot device ok boot /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0:a Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@2,0:a File and args: Can't open boot device ok So now I am pondering how to get a bootable *something*. -- -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken
