Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi

[Christoph Gaitzsch <cg@deepthought.home.de>]

>>>>> "WY" == Wilson Yau <wilson@coms.com> writes:

   >> Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the floppy
   >> and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like "can't
   >> find boot image" off the HDD?

   WY> When the system started booting, I saw it soughting the floopy drive as
   WY> the green light was on and off several times.  

   WY> Shortly after displaying the system information like:

   WY> SPARCengine(tm) Ultra CP1400 (UltraSparc-IIi 303MHz) OpenBoot 3.10.9 ME
   WY> with 192MB RAM.....

   WY> Got this message:

   WY> 	Drive not ready
   WY> 	Boot device: net  File and args:

Hi,

try changing the boot device. Type STOP + a, then "boot floppy".

Greetings, Christoph