On 2 August 2015 03:49:47 BST, Benjamin Huntsman <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all! >I recently acquired a SPARCclassic, which is my first bit of Sun >hardware. Having an awful time getting it to boot from the CD-ROM. I >have tried a bunch of different terminators and several different >cables, but whenever I try to boot I get this: > >ok boot cdrom -s >Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@6,0:d File >and args: -s >The SCSI bus is hung. Perhaps an external device is turned off. > >Any ideas as to what might be wrong here? The thing does not seem to >send any commands to the CD-ROM, as the LED never comes on and I don't >hear it doing anything...
There have probably been enough replies on the CD, so I thought it might be helpful to mention some other boot options :) If you have a SCSI disk and controller in another device you can dd an installed system into the disk. Last I checked qemu sparc worked quite well to install onto an image (or any number of people on the list could provide a suitable disk image) Sparcs also netboot well, you just need rarpd and tftpd to get a the bootloader across, after which bootp and nfsd (or bootparamd if you are very old school :). Even if you get the CD working it's nice to keep a netboot setup around. Alternatively if the floppy drive has not expired you can boot from that... Once you have an OS loaded it gives another way to test the CD
