Hello Rich, > > On 5/9/21 3:24 PM, Rich wrote: > > > I tried just handing it vmlinux from > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-04-17/sparc64/debian-installer-images_20210415_sparc64.tar.gz > > > over TFTP, but that just dies with "fast Data Access MMU Miss" before > > > ever displaying anything suggesting Linux was booting, so that seems > > > wrong.
just looked into my old docu: I was using "boot net:dhcp -p" at prom level to get early kernel messages. And AFAIR, vmlinuz and initrd were combined into one file at that time. > > netboot installers are part of the debian-installer tarball found here [1]. > > > > Please try with that one and report back. netboot is currently untested. I always wanted to test that, but unfortunately I have no time to setup an test in the near future. Good luck and greetings Hermann -- Administration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 205; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-14405 Fax: -14427 Email: hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
