Re: Neither SBUS nor PCI found error on Blade 100 tftp install

2003-09-22 Thread Phil Williams 
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 06:46:09PM +0100, Phil Williams wrote:
 On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:32:05AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
   
   I'm trying to install Debian on my newly acquired Blade 100 and have 
   totally
   come a cropper.
   
   First, I tried burning a CD-R of 3.0r1 and booting with the command:
   
   boot cdrom /boot/sparc64 
   initrd=/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin
   
   I see the Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! message and then
  
  You'll need the newer images here:
  
  http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/
  
  You can still use the CD's for package install.
 
 I've just downloaded and tried the new tftpboot.img and it's working fine for
 me.  Thank you!

Oh no!  I'm stuck again.  On starting the base system installation I get
this error:

Couldn't download devfsd

I've tried installing the packages from my 3.0r1 binary 1 CD and from
http://www.uk.debian.org/debian and I get the same error for each.

Thanks,
Phil

Neither SBUS nor PCI found error on Blade 100 tftp install

2003-09-21 Thread Phil Williams 
Hi,

I'm trying to install Debian on my newly acquired Blade 100 and have totally
come a cropper.

First, I tried burning a CD-R of 3.0r1 and booting with the command:

boot cdrom /boot/sparc64 
initrd=/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin

I see the Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! message and then

Loading initial ramdisk...
Fast Data Access MMU Miss

and I'm returned to the ok prompt.  Looking through the mailing list archives,
this seems to be a fairly common problem and the general advice seems to be
to try a rarp/tftp net installation instead.

That didn't seem like too big of a deal, so I set up rarp/tftp on a Debian box
on the same local network and tried boot net.  I get the usual Sun banner
and then:

Rebooting with command: boot net
Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 File and args:
464c00
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
Neither SBUS nor PCI found.
Program terminated

and again I'm back at the OpenBoot prompt.  Now *this* doesn't seem to be a
common problem!

The machine is happily running Solaris 9 (as far as I can tell) and Openboot
is at version 4.10.6, in case that's relevant.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Phil