Sun4M booting!
To the Great Penguin in the sky,
or Pumpkin?
I have purchased what is apparently the "potato" release for sparc. I
acquired two Sparc600LM servers ($27 for the pair!) which are at this
time runnung Sunos 4.1.3, which I am (or was, in the past) very
familiar. I very much want to install the debian release, but it appears
that the 4M architechure (or more probably the boot program) will simply
not load onto the system. What I am used to with Sparc and HPUX, is an
install boot program loading into memory, asking how you wish to
procede, and then loading the system disks, etc.
I have tried a number of scenarios, and some appeared to be successful,
that is, you could see the the penguin in the upper left, see all the
linux device names instead of Sunos ones. Then, after the initial boot,
init appears to be looking, or not know where to look for rc files and
the like, instead of loading the new release.
I realize the instructions say that this is simply solved by going to
floppies, well, this system has no floppy drive, just a CD and and
ancient 150MB scsi tape reader.
If you have that monkey that can install this, due to its utter
simplicity to install, please have him contact me.
I don't have what I typed in front of me, but it was along these lines:
b cdrom ( this was too easy ..., and was useless.)
b cdrom linux root=/dev/sda1 cfstype=sun ( This, or something similar,
gets me the boot, and then:)
Warning: Unable to open init console: init ( After we boot and its
looking very good, it bails.... )
Terry Dabbs
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