Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from 
> http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso.
>
> It boots the SunBlade 100 to the "boot:" prompt, and I can type "help" 
> and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, 
> I get the message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" followed by the "ok" 
> prompt.

This appears to be related to cache. I found similar issues on Google 
(but not Debian/GNU/Linux-related). Apparently certain OpenBootProm 
(OPB) versions generate this error, and can be worked around by giving 
the command

 limit-ecache-size

at the "go" prompt. Unfortunately, my SunBlade 100 doesn't seem to 
recognize that command. At boot-up, I see the message Open Boot Prom 
4.3, so I assume that's the version of OPB I have, which is later than 
3.2.21 which seems to be the recommended upgrade to solve this issue.

Any one with a solution?

Thanks!

Kent



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