Jurij, I know you asked me to try this out a long time ago but I finally got around to actually doing it. :) Here's a boot attempt using OpenBSD: Sun Fire 880, No Keyboard Copyright 1998-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.5, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #51056707. Ethernet address 0:3:ba:b:10:43, Host ID: 830b1043. {2} ok boot cdrom Boot device: /pci@8,700000/scsi@1/disk@6,0:f File and args: OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 1.1 ..>> OpenBSD 3.8 (obj) #1: Thu Sep 1 17:32:37 MDT 2005 deraadt@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/stand/ofwboot/obj : trying bsd... Sun Fire 880, No Keyboard Copyright 1998-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.5, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #51056707. Ethernet address 0:3:ba:b:10:43, Host ID: 830b1043. {2} ok It seems to get *farther*, at least, and it doesn't report back the same error (just reboots). Dunno if that helps or not.. This was using: -rw-r--r-- 1 sfrost sfrost 4259840 Feb 5 21:47 cd38.iso ===# md5sum cd38.iso 10911d8b58dd97b118ccd4522c761985 cd38.iso ===# Thanks, Stephen
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