On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:04:38AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> 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.
Glad to hear that. Good luck with Solaris. :)
>
> Do we really need a watchdog feature compiled into an install kernel?
>
The "watchdog reset" error doesn't have anything to do with the kernel
watchdog feature. In fact, that's not even compiled into the TFTP
kernels.
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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