Bug#148785: boot-floppies: sparc sun4c SPARCstation IPC won't boot tftpboot.img
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:43:23PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> severity 148785 important
> thanks
>
> #include <hallo.h>
> Chris Jantzen wrote on Sat Jun 01, 2002 um 08:13:09PM:
>
> > SPARCstation IPC is listed as working in documentation, but will not
> > boot tftpboot.img. Boot ROM 2.4, 48MB RAM (maximum), onboard ethernet.
>
> There is many trouble with tftpboot mode.
>
> > Returns "Watchdog reset, Instruction Address Exception". Also fails with
> > potato tftpboot.img. This machine does run Solaris 7 successfully. Have
> > not done 'boot net' with Solaris and have not tested CD-ROM install of
> > Debian (no capability at this point, will look around).
>
> So why do you claim that bug to break the _whole_ system? Please try
> other installation media.
>
Well, first: this same network environment succesfully tftpboot'ed and
installed a sun4m (ss10) machine. And the sun4c downloads the image
successfully, but then won't bootstrap the binary. I tried floppy, but
as expected it just doesn't work. I've never seen a floppy install work
on sparc. I couldn't find any netinst or jigdo images for woody/sparc.
I'm out of CD-R's, the drive wouldn't boot my CD-RW of potato/sparc,
so it'll take a few days to try that path. (Get some new CD-R media /
borrow my brother's potato/sparc burn.)
It breaks the whole system because I can't *get* the whole system.
Technically none of Debian runs. And the documentation still claims
it will work on sun4c. If this is not the case anymore, that's fine,
let's fix the documentation, then. :-)
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