Hi all, I've got an old sparc classic that I've been trying to get up and running over the network. It's got no harddisk, no cdrom, no floppy; it's just cpu + memory. I've been trying to do a debian install over the network with a serial console but I had some trouble where it came up with an error about debootstrap returning -1. I tried numerous times to install it but it always came up with that error. Then I ran it and went back to doing something else, and when I returned it hadn't come up with the error, so I assume it worked. Now I'm trying to boot the thing and complete the installation. I've set boot-file to "root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=172.18.111.2/store/hal ip=dhcp console=/dev/ttyS1" which seems to be the done thing. (I'd note that I've tried various combinations of boot-file, including ttyS0 (the serial cable is on port A) but they all result in the same thing.) I've done it with linux.aout and tftpboot.img, and they both do the same thing. It says "Booting Linux" and then the serial line goes dead (the DSR and CTS indicators actually go off in seyon.)
I'm not 100% sure a) how to tell it what kernel to boot, b) what kernel I should be trying to boot, c) how to tell the kernel to use nfs root and serial console. If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be grateful. Cheers, Bob -- Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
