On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:38, Jim Watson wrote:
> My SunBlade 100 boots 2.6.18 OK from internal disk drive with
> video=atyfb:off. (This was not required with 2.6.16)
> As mentioned in the thread, net boot may be required - at least I
> have not seen any reports of success with CDROM.
Just t
On 31/12/2006, at 2:25 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:40:49 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I have no idea what video cards are in a Sun Blade 100. If it is
something
other than an ATI card, you may need a different parameter. The
kernel
Yes, is ATI
Hello,
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:40:49 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have no idea what video cards are in a Sun Blade 100. If it is something
> other than an ATI card, you may need a different parameter. The kernel
Yes, is ATI card.
Holger
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On Saturday 30 December 2006 13:23, Holger Wansing wrote:
> This doesn't help on Sun Blade 100 machines (while it does on
> Blade 150 systems).
>
> Any suggestions on this?
I have no idea what video cards are in a Sun Blade 100. If it is something
other than an ATI card, you may need a different
Hello,
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:57:31 +0100 Holger Wansing wrote:
> This machine doesn't boot with recent daily builds of the
> debian-installer (2.6.17 or 2.6.18 kernels). Boot up hangs
> at "Booting linux ..".
>
> Frans Pop suggested to try with boot argument "video=atyfb:off"
This doesn't help
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:20:14PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote:
> Assuming you've got a keyboard and monitor, hit Stop-A as it's coming
> up, then type "boot cdrom" at the ok> prompt.
If you are using a serial console, sending a break should do the same
thing.
> Ben Reubenstein wrote:
>
> >The
Assuming you've got a keyboard and monitor, hit Stop-A as it's coming
up, then type "boot cdrom" at the ok> prompt.
Ben Reubenstein wrote:
The system does not seem to even look at the drive before booting...
Any ideas on how to get it to boot off the CD?
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:33:51PM -0600, Ben Reubenstein wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> We have a the suggested net boot install for debian -
>
> http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.bz2
>
> And are trying to boot our sun enterprise 250. We do not have user/pass to
> ex
Hello all -
We have a the suggested net boot install for debian -
http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.bz2
And are trying to boot our sun enterprise 250. We do not have user/pass to
existing solaris since we got the machine from a failed .com
The system does not
sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: boot from CD on ultrasparc5
hi,
try 'Stop-A' and 'boot cdrom' and then 'rescue'.
regards
christian pfister
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:26, soyoung park wrote:
> hi,
>
> got full cd version of debian 3.0r0 for sparc and sta
hi,
try 'Stop-A' and 'boot cdrom' and then 'rescue'.
regards
christian pfister
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 23:26, soyoung park wrote:
> hi,
>
> got full cd version of debian 3.0r0 for sparc and started installing.
>
> did 'Stop-A' then typed 'boot cdrom'
>
> and i got "cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz
as subject header says it's "ultrasparc5"
when boot=/dev/hdc was specified( >boot cdrom /boot/sparc64
boot=/dev/hdc) it gets a bit further before kernel panic hits but now it
wants 'init' to be specified and I don't know what needs be specified
for init.
thanks.
- soyoung
Alex Linko wrote:
hi,
got full cd version of debian 3.0r0 for sparc and started installing.
did 'Stop-A' then typed 'boot cdrom'
and i got "cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz (Unknown isofs error)"
tried "/boot/sparc64.gz" and got kernel panic,
and tried 'expert ' as was suggested on mailinglist earlier for
Ultra10,
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd recommend trying tftp booting first. There are some instructions
> at:
>
> http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/sparc/install.html
FYI, I've just done a quick review of this material, and there's
really not anything there which is not in the off
First, thanks much! to all who offered suggestions for me and my ELC.
Here is a status report:
1. I tried once again to boot from CD-ROM, only this time using a proper
Sun CD-ROM drive. Same error ('Data Access Exception'). Oh well.
2. I found the diskless workstation install instructi
On 24 Apr 1999, Maciej Matysiak wrote:
> Christopher Reid Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > When I try to boot my SPARCstation ELC with the first CD, it gets as
> > far as initializing the RAM disk, at which point it fails with a
> > 'Data Access Exception', and I get put back to the P
uld provided the address to the sparc via
> RARP and the tftpboot image via tftp.
>
> > Since the initial plan (boot from CD and install to an external HDD,
> > serve the external HDD from the x86) seems doomed, I wonder if I can
> > just extract the files I need by hand fro
Christopher Reid Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to boot my SPARCstation ELC with the first CD, it gets as
> far as initializing the RAM disk, at which point it fails with a
> 'Data Access Exception', and I get put back to the PROM prompt.
i have the same error on my sun ipc a
stem via NFS from my Linux/x86 system, but I need a way
> to get the distribution off the CD.
No, the network boot image contains both a kernel and the initial
ramdisk. The i386 box would provided the address to the sparc via
RARP and the tftpboot image via tftp.
> Since the initial plan (boot f
this will be a net-booting machine that
gets its / filesystem via NFS from my Linux/x86 system, but I need a way
to get the distribution off the CD.
Since the initial plan (boot from CD and install to an external HDD,
serve the external HDD from the x86) seems doomed, I wonder if I can
just extrac
Christopher Reid Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello. I hope this is the correct list for this question, and that it is
> not a FAQ. If it is, please point me to the proper spot in the archives.
> I have 2.1 SPARC binary distribution CDs, made by downloading the CD
> images and then burnin
Hello. I hope this is the correct list for this question, and that it is
not a FAQ. If it is, please point me to the proper spot in the archives.
I have 2.1 SPARC binary distribution CDs, made by downloading the CD
images and then burning them onto CD. I'm fairly certain this was done
properly. Wh
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