David Cantrell wrote:
> 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? :)
I just happen to be installing Solaris today on one of the Sparc 5's I have
with the serial console. A couple days ago I install OpenBSD on the other
one and it went just fine. Funny thing, the serial install of Solaris (2.7)
is having fits with serial console. So all that trouble we've had in the
past with it I think is worth it, especially because it makes the install
so much smoother.
Now I just hope I can manage to get Solaris up enough to do compiles without
having to wipe my Slackware drives to get more space.
Do we really need a watchdog feature compiled into an install kernel?
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