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Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run



> I just tftpbooted the images from
> 
>   http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/
>
> The standard boot images would crash while booting.
> 

That's helpful.  I found that the stock images were not recognized by
the OpenBoot firmware.  Not exactly a crash, but neither were they
successful.

> What's you partion table look like? Didn't put swap first for
> example? This is mine:
> 
>   [aviendha][11:35PM]~%> sudo fdisk /dev/hda
> 
>   Command (m for help): p
> 
>   Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38790 cylinders
>   Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> 
>      Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>   /dev/hda1             0      5201   2621304   83  Linux native
>   /dev/hda2  u       5201      6241    524160   82  Linux swap
>   /dev/hda3             0     38790  19550160    5  Whole disk
>   /dev/hda4          6241     38790  16404696   83  Linux native

Interesting question.  In fact, I didn't put it first.  It's third
because that's where solaris put it.  I don't have the machine, so I
cannot reprint it here.  I know that I only had two partitions, 1 and
3.  1 is most of the disk and 3 has about 1G for swap.

The only other thing I can think of trying is the tftp image you
suggest.  Have you been successful with booting the Debian/Sparc
install CDs?

Cheers.



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