On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> i used elftoaout and net'booted the kernel. It's
> still failing in the same area of the kernel, which is
> interesting...
>
> >> esp0: IRQ3,7e0 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40Mhz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF (espfast)
> >> IRQ: Trying to share non-PCI bucket
> >> Kernel panic: Cannot acquire ESP irq line
> >> Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
>
> hmm.. i'm beginning to think that Ultra's aren't that great of a box
> anymore..
>
> Thanks for your help.. i'm not sure what else to try at this point, and it
> doesn't
> seem like there are many other souls out there who are attempting/running
> this.
>
You might try checking out www.ultralinux.org. That's a
site devoted to Linux on the SparcStation/SparcServer
hardware line.
John
