Re: Please test new SILO - problems with CDROM booting may be fixed

[Juliet Kemp <j.kemp@imperial.ac.uk>]

Jurij Smakov wrote:
> David Miller has just posted a silo fix, addressing the long-standing 
> problem of it being unable to boot the system from CDROM on a variety of 
> hardware. So if you've got a machine which dies with 'Fast Data Access 
> MMU Miss', or 'FP Disabled', or 'Illegal instruction' while trying to boot
> from CDROM, please try the iso image at
>
> http://www.wooyd.org/debian/silo/sparc-mini.iso

On SunBlade 100:

boot:
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.16
Loading initial ramdisk (3037283 bytes at 0xF802000 phys, 0x40C00000 
virt)...
Illegal instruction
ok

Unfortunately I can't netboot this machine at present - I couldn't get 
RARP or BOOTP to work, & if I try TFTP, the machine picks up another 
net-boot image (one available from the wider college network).


Regards,
Juliet

--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Ms Juliet Kemp                                                +
+ Computer Manager		            star@imperial.ac.uk         +
+ Astrophysics Group                                            +
+ Imperial College                  Tel: +44 (0)20759 47538     +
+ London. SW7 2AZ                   Fax: +44 (0)20759 47541     +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++