On Sun, 2018-05-13 at 13:21 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 05/13/2018 01:11 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > On Sunday 2018-05-13 18:05, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > > Can you try the netboot image contained in this tarball [1]? > > > > > > Hrmm .. new problem. I think that the firmware on ye older Sun > > > Netra type units was limited as to how much it could fetch and > > > deal with for a "net boot" process. Looks to be precisely 10MB : > > > > And I wonder if they ever bumped it at all, because it is not a > > problem for Solaris, and 10 MB is ample space for a "bootloader" of > > sorts (think wanboot(1m)/inetboot(1m)). Perhaps grub2 is the answer > > to that, since I have never gotten TILO to do it. > > > Me neither. I tested my setup of tftp/dhcp/nfs etc with a net > install of Solaris 10 u11 and that works fine. That is actually using > grub from way back at version 1.97 ( or there abouts ) however it was > madly hacked inside Sun and then more hackary was done during the > OpenSolaris project. Definately grub. I should go have a look and see > if I have the sources laying about somewhere. Could be useful. > > Regardless ... I will keep poking at this with a stick and see what I > can come up with.
Bingo. If I compare sparc/netboot.cfg and sparc64/netboot.cfg from build/config within the debian-installer_20171204, I've got ... - TEMP_INITRD_XZ = $(TEMP)/initrd.xz - $(TEMP_INITRD_XZ): $(TEMP_INITRD) - # xz options ensure that kernel's decoder can handle the image. - zcat $(TEMP_INITRD) | xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=512KiB > $(TEMP_INITRD_XZ) So I am almost sure initrd for sparc64 isn't zipped at all. That will help. ;-) I don't know where to find debian-installer for ports within git. But I just downloaded the sources from deb ... http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-installer/ Thanks, -- Frans van Berckel Media Engineer / Linux Master LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fransvberckel/
