Re: cd boot fails: kernel can't find root fs
Hello all,
Reading Marc's message I took out 128 MB from my SPARC 5, with which I have been struggling to install Debian Linux from CDROM.
The installation went well - it was the 12th attempt -, although I was not able to use consistently the CDROM during the whole process, only the first part until DHCP to the FTP server ... dbootstrap generates error messages about corrupt files while attempting to download from the CDROM all the time, sometimes even from some Debian FTP mirrors ... can Debian Linux handle at all more than 128 of RAM? I wanted to install Linux in order to learn Oracle and I believe that Oracle will not work with less than 256 MB of RAM ...
Best regards,
Lou
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dietmar Schurr" <dietmar.schurr@gmx.de>
To: "Marc Horowitz" <marc@mit.edu>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: cd boot fails: kernel can't find root fs
> Hi list, hi Marc
>
> since a while I follow this thread because I have an old SS20 with 128 MB
> running. The installation (woody) went well with no problems. I used an old
> external SCSI-CDROM-Drive (with Caddy).
> Later on I tried to install a second SS20 with the same set of CD's and I got
> also the same error as you did. First I thought the CD-Drive would be the
> problem (a newer one). I used the same old one as on the other SS20. But the
> problem was still there. Later I managed to install the SS20 with boot
> floppies.
>
> The Boot-PROM version of both SS20's is exactly the same! The only difference
> is, that in the first installed SS20 I have 128 MB and one the later one only
> 118 MB (I don't even know if this is possible). I didn't open the machines to
> check, I just believe what the system tells me.
>
> So it looks like this is a confirmation of your theorie. Your error is
> reproducible.
>
> If your solution is reproducible I don't know, because I finished the
> installation with floppies.
>
> Dietmar (Debian newbie)
>
> Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 04:24 schrieb Marc Horowitz:
> > I got my ss20 to boot the install cdrom!
> >
> > I had 4x32mb memory modules in the machine. On a lark, I pulled two
> > of them out, hoping to affect the memory allocation algorithm, and it
> > worked.
> >
> > If anybody else out there has an ss20 they've been unable to boot off
> > cdrom, try pulling memory until it's got only 64mb, or perhaps
> > anywhere than 128mb. I'm curious if my solution is reproducible.
> >
> > There's still a bug here, but this is a sufficient workaround for me.
> > When I'm done installing, I'll put the memory back in.
> >
> > Marc
>
>
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