On 24 Apr 1999, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > Christopher Reid Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I try to boot my SPARCstation ELC with the first CD, it gets as > > far as initializing the RAM disk, at which point it fails with a > > 'Data Access Exception', and I get put back to the PROM prompt. > > i have the same error on my sun ipc and sparcstation 330. > > i think that the error on ss330 is because of lack of support for sun4 > in default kernel, but i have no idea what about ipc. anyways, i've > succeeded installing linux on ipc over nfs and i'm happy :).
I'm thinking PROM version. If you can get e.g. a 2.9 prom for the IPC or ELC (or whatever's newest) try it. -D
