Obligatory disclaimer: I just joined this list. I should've ages ago, but naturally, I didn't until I had a problem. I'll try not to be stupid, and I have read the archives of the last few months. :)
I have a brand new SunFire V880 server, two 900MHz processors, 4G RAM, 6 72G HDs, and so on. I am trying to boot the Debian install image via TFTP (as I have done with such machines as Ultra 10 and SunBlade 100 with good success). After quite a bit of struggle, I finally found Ben Collins' post of Aug 19 about the UltraSparcIII+ files available at http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ and was quite happy, except when booting it, I then got: Instruction Access Error Bummer. Here's my setup (with unnecessary details because better more than too few). An Enterprise 3000 is running tftpd against the directory /tftpboot. Here's the relevant bit of layout: /tftpboot/: 8B4E71B4@ (soft link to debian/sun4u-3plus-boot-img) debian/: sun4u-3plus-boot-img (tftpboot.img from the_above_URL/sun4u, dated Oct 5) Obviously there's more, but that's the relevant bits. The SunFire V880 is, of course, 139.78.113.180. I boot it with "boot net" and I see: Rebooting with command: boot net Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],700000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 File and args: (number runs up for a while, then) 489800 Instruction Access Error {2} ok On a whim, I tried the Aug 19 tftpboot.img instead. Same effect; I saw: Rebooting with command: boot net Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],700000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 File and args: (number runs) 256400 TILO Selecting sun4u kernel... Instruction Access Error {2} ok Anyone have any advice here? Am I totally looking in the wrong direction? I should also note that I've already updated the firmware to current (or, well, to 4.6.7, anyway, which I gathered was current). Thanks for anything at all, including just reading, Russ Smith Senior System Manager, Oklahoma State University Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED]
