-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Lucas wrote:
> we have a Sun Fire V490 with 4xUltraSparc IV+ (1.5GHz) and 16GB RAM. I > want to try linux on this machines. > > My first Question is, if someone can confirm, that linux runs on this > CPUs/System. > > My second Question is how to boot this machine. I tried install-CDs > (gentoo, debian, FreeBSD, aurora)... All failed. The gentoo-silo says > the same like in the forum: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-430459.html?sid=d88bca7a09368b42113c1c47385ca134 > > > Loading the kernel without the initrd leads to "Instruction Access > Error" and "Stack Underflow". > > silo in aurora-2-beta seems to work. they use kernel 2.6.13 an a huge > initrd. But after starting kernel it says something like no CPUs found > (only one line). I'm not sure if this is the kernel or silo. Hi. We've never had a UltraSPARC-IV machine to test with. You can try my experimental ISO @ http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/experimental/ It's based on silo 1.4.10 and while it does not cut it for many machines models it might do in your case. It has 2.6.15+patches and 2.4.32+patches to try. Feedback more than welcome! - -- Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD6MRRV3G/IBCn/JARAouHAJ9OGcnWWn8dKA68kAYBKCY9LY/wRgCdE+LN 3kTu9NoxBCHDrt4McbaaJDo= =mM0B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
