Re: Installing on a SparcServer 1000E
I dunno about your problem getting it to work, but the SparcServers 1000
and 1000E have a Y2K problem. Requires PROM 2.31 or later.. It can be fixed
but it requires a call to Sun.. Dunno how difficult that is to get.
Tony
>
> I just got a hand-me-down SparcServer 1000E (sun4d) that I was trying to
> install linux on. I can't seem to make it happen.
>
> Every time I try to install (many different ways), I get an error that
> pops me back out to the PROM, unless I try to net boot from the slink
> 2.1.1 tftpboot image. Then it claims that it is Loading Linux and appears
> to hang forever. I can't even send a break to get to the PROM. I have to
> power cycle it (the fact that I've done this would seem to imply that I
> have no proof that it hangs ``forever'', but it would seem to.)
>
> The other times, it gets to different points before telling me that there
> has been an ``Illegal Access Exception'' or something like that (I'm
> currently not in front of it, and it's busy hanging forever).
>
> I see some implications in the mailing list archives that it has been
> successfully installed on this architecture. Let me give you some
> specifics. I think it has 4 CPUs (2 each on two boards), the I/O/CPU
> boards on which they sit, and 288MB RAM. There was some sort of SBUS
> fiber channel card attaching it to a sparc storage array, but I removed
> it, thinking that it might be causing the problem. It didn't fix it, but
> I didn't put it back.
>
> I'd really appreciate it if anyone could help me out here. Solaris would
> just be so boring to put on it.
>
> -Bitt
>
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