Hello, I've got an SparcStation IPC here, which is to be a diskless station. After some work it will now get an kernel image from the server (on the server, RARP, ARP and TFTP are configured): you can see the Sparc counting the number of received bytes, and when the whole kernel-image is received, it prints "Booting Linux...". Then it stops, even the cursor stops blinking. No network traffic either.
I've tried serveral kernels from <debian>/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/2.2.20-2000-12-03/ and <debian>/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/2.2.20-2000-12-13/sun4cdm, but I think the sun4cdm/linux-a.out should be the right one, I'm using it now. Although the kernel hasn't reached the mount root-fs stage yet, under /tftpboot/[host-ip] I have installed the (unpacked) root-image root.tar.gz. I'm not using a tftpboot.img image because the system is low on memory (12 Mb). Unfortnately I cannot test it with a boot disk as I don't even have a disk-drive for it. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what the problem can be, or perhaps some other kernels that are known to work on a SparcStation IPC that I can try? Kind regards, Tim ter Laak