Hi Jim, I downloaded debian-31r3-sparc-netinst.iso and booted from OB with "boot cdrom ide=nodma". The cdrom seams to work. I tried gentoo only to see if the installation routines have a problem. But both distributions criticize the ramdisk as I understand the messages.
- Marco Original Message ----------------------- On 03/11/2006, at 7:42 AM, Marco Abderhalden wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to install Debian and Gentoo on a Sunblade 100. But I > didn't have success. > > Debian error: > cramfs: wrong magic > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > Gentoo error: > Loaded Kernel Version 2.6.17 > Loading Initial ramdisk (645016 bytes at 0x2F802000 phys, > 0x40C0000 virt)... > Illegal Instruction > > Do I have some problem with the ramdisk. The SB100 has 512MB of ram. > > Thanks in advance for useful hints. > > Regards, > Marco > Marco, To get help I think you should give exact details where you got the boot disks, what versions etc. My cdrom died years ago but a method that always works for me is net boot using tftp http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s04.html.en jim
