Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

[Jon BIddell <jon@mandrake.net.au>]

Boon Siong wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I have a Sun Fire V240 with 1GB Ram,
>  
> i get this msg when i try to boot up with debian installation cd,
>  
> ok boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f  File and args:
> SILO Version 1.4.9
> \
> boot:
> Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
> Loaded kernel version 2.4.27
> Loading initial ramdisk (3041649 bytes at 0x3F800000 phys, 0x40C00000
> virt)...
> -
> Remapping the kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
> ok

Boon - the one time I managed to get Gentoo to install from CDROM I had
the same problem on the SunBlade 1000.

Try a netboot - did it last night and it works perfectly (you can
specify CD/DVD as the source for packages when you get to that point).

jon