"James Ascroft-Leigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not sure if this is the correct email address but I am having a problem > booting into Debian on my SPARCstation IPX.
I'm cross-posting this to debian-sparc list for comment. > Actually I have two IPXs with > 48Mb RAM and 16Mb RAM, ROM Rev 2.4 and ROM Rev. 2.3 respectively. > > They both act in exactly the same manner when I boot them from my other Sun > computer, a SPARCstation IPX using the command 'boot net'. They will > successfully download the boot image and begin to execute it but they appear > to freeze on when they try to load Linux. The screen says: > > OK boot net > Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],c00000 File and args: > 1e460 > TILO > Booting Linux... > > I have left them here for many minutes and they do not progress beyond this > point. Pressing Stop+A has no effect. > I am using the potato image for the sun4cdm named tftpboot.img. This file > worked fine on the SPARCstation 5 and also the two IPXs booted fine using > the RedHat tftpboot images and the slink image (I would prefer to use the > potato image because slink did not seem to give me the option to install > over HTTP or FTP directly from ftp.uk.debian.org). > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, > > James Ascroft-Leigh > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
