Re: tftpboot.img wierdness (Sparc10)
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:38:46PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a misbehaving Sparcstation10.
>
> Using the tftpboot.img I get as far as the "Welcome" splash srcreen,
> but when I hit return it only brings me back to the same screen???
>
> I've done 7 net installs recently with this server & image with no
> problems (2 sparc20's and 5 sparc5's), well make that 8 this is
> actually the second install on this machine, I switched out the 264M
> HD for a 1.06G and it's failing to reinstall...Don't think it's the
> drive since it never gets that far.
>
> An other oddity of this machine (at the PROM level) is that it doesn't
> auto detect the TPE ethernet and insists on trying the AUI unless I
> explicitly "boot net-tpe"
After you boot, switch to vt2 (ALT+F2), and hist return to get a shell.
See what happens there (or switch to vt3 and check the log window).
Ben
--
-----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------
/ Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \
` bcollins@debian.org -- bcollins@openldap.org -- bcollins@linux.com '
`---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
Reply to: