From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux on Sun3 machines
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:04:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36851b1c-ee19-3545-d21b-e4f62edc91de@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210116010503.GI1344617@anhedonia>
Hi Sam!
On 1/16/21 2:05 AM, Sam Creasey wrote:
> Honestly, it probably doesn't boot. The last kernel I knew to boot
> successfully was 2.6.16, and that required patches.
I guess then we have something to fix :-).
> My last round of notes is still here: https://sammy.net/sun3/
OK, thank you. I will have a look.
> It does include links to a compiled bootloader to netboot a sun3, and
> a very ancient debian userland (though if you get to trying to load
> init, I'd call that a victory).
Great. I will probably try the old stuff first, then switch to a newer kernel
and report any issues I run into to the list.
> I don't believe I ever wrote up full boot instructions, but the
> bootloader is a fork of the NetBSD one, so if you can get
> rarp/tftp/nfs/etc working well enough to netboot that, you're in the
> right place to try to netboot a Linux kernel. I don't currently have
> a boot server configured, but I might be able to find some time to
> set something up and help you debug if you get that far. I've
> certainly still got hardware to test with.
Sounds good. Let's get this back into working state!
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-16 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 18:31 Booting Linux on Sun3 machines John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-15 18:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-16 1:05 ` Sam Creasey
2021-01-16 5:09 ` Finn Thain
2021-01-16 9:04 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2021-01-18 20:01 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-01-18 21:03 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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