On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:44 +0100, "BERTRAND Joel" <[email protected]> wrote: > Willie a écrit : > > Good day. > > > > I've managed to set up working rarp and tftp servers on an x86 debian > > laptop, and I see the headless U60 booting across the network via a > > terminal server on ttyA, but eventually the boot process hangs. Here are > > the last few lines of boot messages: > > > > -- > > > > [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: > > [ 0.000000] Normal 0 -> 393078 > > [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node > > [ 0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges > > [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 131072 > > [ 0.000000] 0: 262144 -> 393078 > > [ 0.000000] Booting Linux... > > [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. > > Total pages: 259318 > > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: > > [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) > > [ 0.000000] clocksource: mult[238db] shift[16] > > [ 0.000000] clockevent: mult[7334e15e] shift[32] > > [ 266.802741] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > > [ 266.855795] console handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0] > > > > -- > > > > > > The boot server directory /var/lib/tftpboot contains: > > > > boot.img > > C0A89E64 --> boot.img > > > > > > ...which I obtained from > > /debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot > > > > Hello, > > It's not a tftp trouble. Your U60 is able to find your boot image. You > say that you don't have any framebuffer and output you have posted shows > that kernel tries to switch to a framebuffer to attach tty0. Can you try > with a frambuffer ? If not, you have to be sure that your boot image > contains all modules required to support console on serial line. If I > have more time this afternoon, I shall check on my U60. > > Regards, > > JKB >
Thank you Joel, In fact there is an Expert 3D graphics card in the machine, but I don't have either a monitor or keyboard attached. I understand that in the absence of a real console a Sparc will drop back to ttyA for input/output? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
