Re: Installation Problem on a Sunblade 100
Hi Jim,
I downloaded debian-31r3-sparc-netinst.iso and booted from OB with "boot cdrom ide=nodma". The cdrom seams to work. I tried gentoo only to see if the installation routines have a problem. But both distributions criticize the ramdisk as I understand the messages.
- Marco
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On 03/11/2006, at 7:42 AM, Marco Abderhalden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to install Debian and Gentoo on a Sunblade 100. But I
> didn't have success.
>
> Debian error:
> cramfs: wrong magic
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
>
> Gentoo error:
> Loaded Kernel Version 2.6.17
> Loading Initial ramdisk (645016 bytes at 0x2F802000 phys,
> 0x40C0000 virt)...
> Illegal Instruction
>
> Do I have some problem with the ramdisk. The SB100 has 512MB of ram.
>
> Thanks in advance for useful hints.
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
Marco,
To get help I think you should give exact details where you got the
boot disks, what versions etc.
My cdrom died years ago but a method that always works for me is net
boot using tftp
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s04.html.en
jim
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