Booting CD-ROM Installation
Hi, I have been using Debian on x86 systems for about 3 years and have now come into possession of some Sun Sparc5 machines. These have no Floppy drive and internal hard disk I have an External CD-ROM which I can use to boot into the Solaris installation fine, but when I try to boot into the Debian CD(which boots fine on my x86 boxes) following the instructions on the Debian on Sparc installation site(http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-cd) it doesnt work. is a bootable sparc debian cd different to a x86 cd? -- Thanks, Aaron Daniels Network Administrator Nornet/Dataheart Phone: +612 6621 3215 Fax:+612 6621 5356
Booting From a CD-ROM
Repeat from my Real Address. Hi, I have been using Debian on x86 systems for about 3 years and have now come into possession of some Sun Sparc5 machines. These have no Floppy drive and internal hard disk I have an External CD-ROM which I can use to boot into the Solaris installation fine, but when I try to boot into the Debian CD(which boots fine on my x86 boxes) following the instructions on the Debian on Sparc installation site(http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-cd) it doesnt work. is a bootable sparc debian cd different to a x86 cd? -- Thanks, Aaron Daniels Network Administrator Nornet/Dataheart Phone: +612 6621 3215 Fax:+612 6621 5356
Re: Booting CD-ROM Installation
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Nornet Helpline wrote: I have been using Debian on x86 systems for about 3 years and have now come into possession of some Sun Sparc5 machines. These have no Floppy drive and internal hard disk I have an External CD-ROM which I can use to boot into the Solaris installation fine, but when I try to boot into the Debian CD(which boots fine on my x86 boxes) following the instructions on the Debian on Sparc installation site(http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-cd) it doesnt work. is a bootable sparc debian cd different to a x86 cd? The way you phrased that explanation made it seem like you were trying to use the x86 cd to boot the sparc machine... now, if this is the case, then that is your problem -- you need the sparc specific dist cd. If that is not the case, then I apologise for being pedantic. Assuming that the boot prom knows where the bootable cdrom is, you may have a bad cd. Make sure that the cdrom device is at scsi ID 6 if you have the defaults set on the boot prom. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Net Boot problem
Hello! I am not sure if this is a problem produced by me... I am trying to TFTPBoot an Ultra1 Maschine. I did the same with a couple of Sparc's before. My Problem is that when I start TCPDump on another Ultra in the same subnet and do a boot net on the to installing maschine I get nothing. I mean I dont see any broadcast packages like arp and rarp. Am I doing something wrong? Yours Ruprecht -- Waerend man in Villa Redmond noch bootet, ist der Pinguin schon bei der Arbeit!
[baudin@cnam.fr: Re: Booting CD-ROM Installation]
oups, I forgot the group reply... ---BeginMessage--- On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 04:51:58AM -0500, B.C.J.O wrote: is a bootable sparc debian cd different to a x86 cd? The way you phrased that explanation made it seem like you were trying to use the x86 cd to boot the sparc machine... now, if this is the case, then that is your problem -- you need the sparc specific dist cd. If that is not the case, then I apologise for being pedantic. Of course you are ;-) I'll try another interpretation of the question: Yes ! a bootable sparc CD IS different to a x86 one. Trying to do a mkisofs with the el-torito flags won't work on sparc. This way of making bootable CD is an ugly PC thing du to a dirty BIOS conception. Sun hardware used to boot from CD before PC appears Just check the documentation about SILO (/usr/doc/silo I guess) which explains how to make a bootable CD for sparc (it explains better than I on a mailing list...) hope this help, max -- Baudin Maxime - PhD student - CNAM Laboratoire electronique et communication - Paris ---End Message---
Fresh New potato boot disks from the 2.2.6 boot floppies
Today I tried the 2.2.6 boot floppy build of Sun4cdm Rescue.bin on an LX. I have the exact same "Caught in an endless loop!" as described for the SS1, Sun4c below. The LX I tried has a floppy, SUN+ external CDROM (Sony CDU-561), ROM Rev 2.9 + 32Mb RAM. 850Mb Quantum HD. The large fonts look good here. Re-tried on Sun4c again with the same result. Will download boot floppy images again to see if I have a problem with the disks themselves. Any suggestions? Peter Myers Quick test only: Sun4c disk install SparcStation1, 16 Mb Ram, Boot Prom version 1, 540 Mb IBM HD, framebuffer cg6 Compared to last 2 versions of potato very smooth install till "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" Asks for Rescue.bin, then Driver-1.bin then "message saying analysing next step" which sends me back to "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules". Caught in endless loop! Didn't have time to play more. Pages load at same very slow rate (16 seconds max) with large font as reported before. Small fonts may be better. BLOCK Cursor consistantly one line high at menu selection. Peter Myers
