Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

Hello, I'm trying to make a Sarge system run on an Ultra 5 workstation, booting from net with root on nfs. This is what I managed to do already: - compiled a sparc64 cross compiler on a x86 system - cross-compiled kernel 2.6.12 for sparc64 - ran elftoaout on the kernel - set up rarp and tftp

Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

On 8/31/05, Jim MacBaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resume the installation at the point where debootstrap failed when it tried to chroot into the sparc file system? I'm sure this is not the best way, but I got a fairly good-working system by - booting with init=/bin/bash

Re: OT: Set OpenBoot input device

On 8/30/05, Chris Newport [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let the system boot then use the eeprom command FWIW, there was no need to alter the OBP, booting with no keyboard automatically transfers control to ttya. Unfortunately I havn't installed Debian yet. The box came with NetBSD installed, and

Re: OT: Set OpenBoot input device

Thank you very much for your input, Chris and Klaus! I found a lucky solution I had not expected. At one more reboot, the NetBSD kernel found that it had mounted the root fs for many times. The following fsck failed and I got dropped into single user mode. There I found that NetBSD has an eeprom