> I just tftpbooted the images from > > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ > > The standard boot images would crash while booting. >
That's helpful. I found that the stock images were not recognized by the OpenBoot firmware. Not exactly a crash, but neither were they successful. > What's you partion table look like? Didn't put swap first for > example? This is mine: > > [aviendha][11:35PM]~%> sudo fdisk /dev/hda > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38790 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 0 5201 2621304 83 Linux native > /dev/hda2 u 5201 6241 524160 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda3 0 38790 19550160 5 Whole disk > /dev/hda4 6241 38790 16404696 83 Linux native Interesting question. In fact, I didn't put it first. It's third because that's where solaris put it. I don't have the machine, so I cannot reprint it here. I know that I only had two partitions, 1 and 3. 1 is most of the disk and 3 has about 1G for swap. The only other thing I can think of trying is the tftp image you suggest. Have you been successful with booting the Debian/Sparc install CDs? Cheers.
