Re: Help installing on and old SPARC 5
Yep. The CDROM is recognized even if it is not a SUN CDROM. I can boot a
Solaris CD, and I can boot the Debian CD. The problem is that the kernel
on the CD doesn't recognize the CDROM, and it cannot mount the root fs.
-g
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 09:45:32 digihans wrote:
> Just some thoughts:
>
> At the openbootprompt,
> Is your cdrom recognized after the command: probe-scsi-all
> And is it a sun-cdrom-player?
> If not, is it set to 512bytes sectors?
> CD-players for PC's are set by default to 2K/sector,
> and sun demands 512b/sector in order to boot....
>
>
> Hans
>
> graziano wrote:
> >
> > The cd-rom is on SCSI id 6. After I
> > boot cdrom
> > the linux kernel kicks in, but I think it is not recognizing the
> CDROM
> > or the HD. At least on x86 you get the lists of SCSI devices and I
> > didn't see any lists in the boot. Then the kernel panics (of courss)
> > because there is no root.
> >
> > graziano
> >
> > On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:47:11 Lars Hall wrote:
> > > make sure the cd rom is scsi id 6
> > > try STOP-A and at the ok prompt type
> > > boot cdrom
> > >
> > > graziano wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to install debian on an old sparc 5. The HD is in
> need of
> > > at
> > > > least reformatting, perhaps is to trash, and the machine doesn't
> > > have an
> > > > internal floppy or CDROM. I burnt my own CD and hooked up an
> > > external
> > > > CD-W (SCSI) and tried to boot from there.
> > > >
> > > > I get to the boot prompt. I tried the "s" option (for SCSI
> cdrom)
> > > and
> > > > the kernel boot, but it cannot mount the root filesystem.
> > > >
> > > > I'm fairly experienced with x86 debian installation, but this is
> my
> > > > first sparc. Any suggestion on what to do?
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > > graziano
> > > >
> > > > PS I'm not on the mailing list (yet). Please answer ccing me.
> > > >
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