> Thanks to all those who replied to my kludge. > I have managed to install Potato in SparcServer1000.
Excellent, sun4d is one of those little tested systems I rarely see. Hopefully I'll be getting one soon. > Looking in the kernel sources, it has references to SparcServer1000 SMP, > so it should be able to do it, > but there are cases with combinations of hardware that I see > "kernel panic". I am yet to narrow down the reasons for it. One of our other Debian developers has a SS2000 and has similiar problems, however, he does have SMP working (flakey, but working). Maybe the 2.2.15 kernel will be better when it is available (hopefully will be for potato). > I tried with slink boot images at first, but it was not quite good. > I then tried the potato boot images (2.2.8) and it went okay. > I installed using TFTPboot because that was the only method available. > > One thing I noticed is that it doesn't reboot when I choose > reboot from the installer; it just goes back to the menu. Known issue, but thanks. This will be fixed in the 2.2.9 boot-floppies. > > However, SparcServer1000 doesn't seem to reboot at all. > In fact, it doesn't go off without turning the keys at the front of the > machine. > Heh, a machine that doesn't want to die? :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
