Re: problem booting Debian on X1

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk>]

Jeremy Kister wrote:
> On 7/21/2014 8:10 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:
> > On 7/21/2014 7:48 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:
> > > I would guess it's:
> > > /mnt/sbin # silo -r /mnt -S backup1 -f
>
> > all yield "Fast Data Access MMU Miss"
>
> wow, i got it.  ends up silo needed -u -- i found that by this post:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570264
>
> Thanks Patrick (and anyone else) for your input.  boxes are all happy now.
>
> debian-sparc maintainers: please stop coding bugs.  (just kidding)

Interesting. On older machines I found that it depended on the firmware 
version, and that I was able to fix it be booting Solaris and patching 
to a version that I knew ran.

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