I'm also running an IPX, mine with a serial console. Running serial
console on one of these is really the best way of getting it working,
insofar as you can capture boot monitor output. I'd ask you to do
'printenv' from the openprom and post it.
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Manfred Plagmann wrote:
Hi,
I inherited a Sun IPX which did not start up. I down loaded Debian-sparc
on the weekend and found that the machine was booting :)) I installed
the floppy disk base version and all seems OK the computer is however
not booting by its own and needs a boot disk. What did I miss when I
installed the system or is it not possible to have the IPX boot directly
from the HD? I guess that I forgot something when I set the partitions
of the primary disk. The installation manual on the debian server is
unfortunately incomplete (at least on the Australian and the US server)
as no text follows the subsection heading Partitioning prior to
installation. At startup the loader complains that the magic word on
the boot disk is missing. How can I set this word.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers,
Manfred
