Re: 1st time installation on a Sun Sparc Ultra 10...
I could install on my ultra10 with just a boot cdrom in the openprom
prompt.
I am not very familiar with openprom commands, but
Does that give the same result.?
-bharath
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 18:26, Gordon Cormack wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I've searched the archives with no luck so sorry if this has been answered
> already. Please bare with me as I'm a debian-sparc virgin :(
>
> In short this is the problem and how I got there:
>
> * setenv boot-file linux
> * boot /pci@1f,0/.../cdrom@1,0:f
> * computer resets and starts the debian install
> * then errors:
> ...
> ...
> ...
> Partition check
> ...
> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
> VFS: Unable to mount root via NFS, trying floppy
> VFS: Insert floppy and press ENTER
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
>
> I have tried:
> * boot xxx root=/dev/hda1
> Errors:
> ...
> You didn't specify the type of your UFS filesystem
> ...
> Warning: unable to open initial console
> Kernel panic: No init found ...
>
> - The ISO was burnt correctly and contains case-sensitive file structures
> (debian-2.2r3-sparc-1.iso)
> - I would give you more info on hardware, bios versions, etc. but I'm new to
> Sparc and really don't know how to get it for you?
> - This machine has 2 existing hdd's which ran Solaris8 but I'm wanting to
> nuke them and put Debian over the top
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Gordon (gcormack@powerserve.com.au)
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