On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:56:03AM -0800, David Cantrell wrote:
> I've spent today working on netbooting on the sun4c platform, specifically
> the IPC and IPX problems that people have.
>
> The image that's currently in the tree will load up on my IPC and then
> just halt. No errors, the size count stops and that's it.
>
> I've been working on new images, using a different approach to making net
> boot images, and now I have gotten a little further. The netboot loader
> (TILO) loads and then it attempts to find the kernel or boot it or
> something and just displays "Illegal instruction" and returns to the ok
> prompt.
>
> The CD-ROM does boot up just fine on the system, so I know the machine I
> have is actually capable of booting Slackware.
>
> I'm not really sure what else to try. I've tried different piggyback tftp
> images, tried tilo several different ways. a.out kernels, elf kernels,
> compressed, not compressed. If anyone has any suggestions or pointers or
> anything on this subject, please speak up.
>
After a trip to 7 eleven, I'm restocked on caffeine and good to go for at
least 47 more hours. Progress made tonight:
I now have it actually loading the netboot image and then booting the
kernel. That immediately craps out with a "Watchdog reset" error message.
But the good news is that it's actually loading the kernel and attempting
to boot it. I know some people got watchdog reset errors before, and my
best explanation for that is that the tftp32 images that they tried
happened to be correctly aligned. The one I was making tonight was not
aligned properly and needed 3 bytes tacked onto the end of the image file.
Progress is slowly being made...it's taken me what, only 3 months to get
off my ass and work on this? :)
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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