Hi, I recently picked up a Sparcstation 1 from my school's scrap heap. Not wanting to lug around the monitor and keyboard, I left them to be hauled away. I've got the serial console working just fine, and I'm trying to boot over the network. (There's no floppy drive, and I don't have a spare SCSI CDROM sitting around.)
Anyway, here's what happens: I load tftpboot.img, and the hex numbers on the console increase until it's loaded the entire image. Then nothing. No more data to the serial console. No response to a <BREAK>. I've tried giving the options "serial" and/or "console=ttya" on the boot command (typed into the ROM monitor), but nothing works. I get the same results from the Debian and Red Hat tftpboot.img binaries. (Not that I would ever really USE red hat... :) ) Any ideas? Other things I've already tried: padding the boot image out to a multiple of 4k has no effect, except that a few more bytes get loaded. loading the image, then inspecting it using the ROM disassembler, shows that it contains valid machine code -- but running it has the same effect as above. i have 16 Mb of RAM, a video card, and (I think) a spare SCSI card; removing the cards makes no difference. the machine still boots SunOS 4.1.4 off the hard drive, but I can't do anything with that, since it hangs on the NFS mounts, and I don't have any login passwords anyway. Brian Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
