Hello Tim. I had that "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable." stuff a while ago, too. For me, it seems to be the general error message if the machine does not know what to do. On my machine the CD-drive was broken.
Is your boot configuration ok? I assume you will get that message if you try to boot from the wrong partition. Do not give up, it will work :-) I use Debian on my SS20 since mid' 2002 and it works. I still have some hardware issues, but that is because I try to use it with 2 Ross CPUs and the onboard graphics. Basic configuration is ok. Regards, Hartwig On Sunday 23 February 2003 07:09, Tim Spriggs wrote: > Hello, > > I have been having some serious issues trying to get a > SparcStation 20 to boot. In order to install debian I had to net-boot the > machine since it did not like the cd-rom for some reason. > > The installation process has had problems at the very end when > "Making the system bootable" and has come up with a non-specific failure. > Other times it succeeds and simply wants to reboot. > > Either way, when I try and boot the machine from the drive I just > installed debian on, it gives me an error in the open boot prom: > > "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable." > > I have looked all over the place online and found only one > reference to someone who changed a parameter in /etc/silo.conf which I > tried with no success. > > Any help or even suggestions as to how to get this thing moving would be > highly appreciated. > > Thank you, > > -Tim > > < PRE > > ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--## > > | T I M S P R I G G S | > | Assistant Sysadmin - Development | > | College of Engineering and Mines | > | ECE206A - (520) 621-3185 | > > ##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--##--## > </PRE >
