Re: Problems booting Sun Blade 100: still unable to boot from CD

[Jim Watson <jim@amarooas.com.au>]

On 31/12/2006, at 2:25 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:40:49 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>  
> wrote:
> > I have no idea what video cards are in a Sun Blade 100. If it is  
> > something
> > other than an ATI card, you may need a different parameter. The  
> > kernel
>
> Yes, is ATI card.

My SunBlade 100 boots 2.6.18 OK from internal disk drive with  
video=atyfb:off. (This was not required with 2.6.16)
As mentioned in the thread, net boot may be required - at least I  
have not seen any reports of success with CDROM.
jim