On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:38:46PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I have a misbehaving Sparcstation10. > > Using the tftpboot.img I get as far as the "Welcome" splash srcreen, > but when I hit return it only brings me back to the same screen??? > > I've done 7 net installs recently with this server & image with no > problems (2 sparc20's and 5 sparc5's), well make that 8 this is > actually the second install on this machine, I switched out the 264M > HD for a 1.06G and it's failing to reinstall...Don't think it's the > drive since it never gets that far. > > An other oddity of this machine (at the PROM level) is that it doesn't > auto detect the TPE ethernet and insists on trying the AUI unless I > explicitly "boot net-tpe"
After you boot, switch to vt2 (ALT+F2), and hist return to get a shell. See what happens there (or switch to vt3 and check the log window). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
