From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:12:26 +0000 Subject: Re: UltraPenguin 1.1.9 on Ultra Enterprise 1 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > I'm hoping you might have some hints for me regarding UP-1.1.9. > > I am trying to install UltraPenguin 1.1.9 on a Ultra Enterprise 1 (143MHz), > with a serial console. I'm very excited about the possiblity of > using Sparc UltraLinux as a file-server, but have had no luck getting > it working. > > When I try to boot from a floppy using the boot.img in the UP-1.1.9 dist, > SILO prints "SI" then I get "Program terminated" and am dumped back into > the PROM monitor. I suppose this is PROM bug I'm seeing on Ultra1/Creator here as well. I was told newer PROMs in Ultra1 machines should have fixed this, but with your current PROM there is no way to boot floppy. Try CD-ROM/net/tape booting instead. Sorry. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ UltraLinux | http://ultra.linux.cz/ | http://ultra.penguin.cz/ Linux version 2.2.4 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________