Hi
we have a Sun Fire V490 with 4xUltraSparc IV+ (1.5GHz) and 16GB RAM. I
want to try linux on this machines.
My first Question is, if someone can confirm, that linux runs on this
CPUs/System.
My second Question is how to boot this machine. I tried install-CDs
(gentoo, debian, FreeBSD, aurora)... All failed. The gentoo-silo says the
same like in the forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-430459.html?sid=d88bca7a09368b42113c1c47385ca134
Loading the kernel without the initrd leads to "Instruction Access Error"
and "Stack Underflow".
silo in aurora-2-beta seems to work. they use kernel 2.6.13 an a huge
initrd. But after starting kernel it says something like no CPUs found
(only one line). I'm not sure if this is the kernel or silo.
THX,
Sascha.
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