Bug#60173: Sparc tftpboot.img doesn't work on sun4c, root.bin images are missing
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:58:13PM -0500, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.2.8
> Architecture: sparc
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried (admittedly not very hard) to do a potato install on a
> SparcStation 2.
>
> First, the tftpboot.img doesn't seem to work. I set it up to netboot
> from this, and got the following result:
>
> WARNING: Unable to determine keyboard typeSPARCstation 2, No Keyboard
> ROM Rev. 2.2, 32 MB memory installed, Serial #4230298.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:e:1d:49, Host ID: 55408c9a.
>
>
> Testing 1 megs of memory. Still to go 0
> Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
> >n
> Type help for more information
> ok boot net
> Boot device: /sbus/le@0,c00000 File and args:
> 2fbc00
> TILO
> Booting Linux...
Ok, I'll take a look at this.
> It pauses for a long time at the 'TILO', then freezes (I can't halt it
> back to the firmware, I have to power-cycle it) at 'Booting Linux...'
>
> I sort of suspect that it's trying to boot a sun4u kernel.
>
> Also, it's not possible to install by booting vmlinux-a.out from the
> net and then using the root.bin, since the root.bin files didn't seem
> to get included in the release :)
Wrong, root.bin is not subarch dependant. The file is in
current/images-1.44/
Also, you you can use the a.out kernels with NFS root, but serving up
root.tar.gz (unpacked of course, and instructions are covered in the
install docs) from an NFS server.
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