RE: SILO won't run

2003-09-17 Thread Owen Mehegan
For some reason my Sparcstation 20 won't boot from the boot floppies, or from the ISO of disk 1 of the full Debian install. It only boots from this ghetto mini-sparc image. I hit on the idea of switching to the console to run silo and see if it gave any better error output, and it does. It says

Re: card Sun Swift

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Pacenka
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:00, bath66 wrote: > Is the SunSwift's card (SCSI + Ethernet) supported by linux (it uses > an SBUS port) ? If yes, which options do I have to activate ? Both parts of SunSwift in my SS20 work well. The precompiled sparc32 2.4.21 kernels from Debian include both drivers.

Booting a Debian installer on a Sun SunFire 6800

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Finnegan
I'm having trouble trying to boot off of an install CD (I don't have networking set up at the moment, but could probably get that set up). I'm trying to install on a 2nd "B" domain on the machine, with a single CPU/memory board. When I try to issue the command to boot from the CDROM: {14} ok boo