Well, I discovered that one of the problems with the DVD was I used DVD+R disc and only DVD-R is supported under the X7288A. Once I burned the ISO to the DVD-R disc and tried it again, then the Linux OS would actually start. However, when I did boot from the DVD drive, I encountered this message: install exited abnormally [0/0] -- received signal 10 I tried it under the netboot ISO as well and encountered the same problem. --- Here's the output from the initial boot startup... boot: linux Allocated 64 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.6.27 Loading initial ramdisk (10668049 bytes at 0x5F000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.0.17 2003/10/06 17:10' PROMLIB: Root node compatible: sun4u Linux version 2.6.27.12-78.2.9.fc9.sparc64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-11) (GCC) ) #1 Sat Jan 24 22:08:29 console [earlyprom0] enabled ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:36:34:48 Kernel: Using 2 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. Remapping the kernel... done. OF stdout device is: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/isa@7/serial@0,3f8 PROM: Built device tree with 58456 bytes of memory. Top of RAM: 0x5feb8000, Total RAM: 0x3fe26000 Memory hole size: 512MB [0000000200000000-fffff80000400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=0/0 [0000000200000000-fffff80000800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1/0 [0000000200700000-fffff80000c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=2/0 [0000000200700000-fffff80001000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=3/0 Zone PFN ranges: Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0002ff5c Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[5] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00010000 0: 0x00020000 -> 0x0002f7ff 0: 0x0002f800 -> 0x0002ff00 0: 0x0002ff40 -> 0x0002ff4c 0: 0x0002ff54 -> 0x0002ff5c Booting Linux... Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 129492 Kernel command line: rw ks=http://192.168.0.3/ks/epsilon.cfg ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp noipv6 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) clocksource: mult[5a0000] shift[16] clockevent: mult[2d82d82] shift[32] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.0.17 2003/10/06 17:10' PROMLIB: Root node compatible: sun4u Linux version 2.6.27.12-78.2.9.fc9.sparc64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-11) (GCC) ) #1 Sat Jan 24 22:08:29 console [earlyprom0] enabled ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:36:34:48 Kernel: Using 2 locked TLB entries for main kernel image. Remapping the kernel... done. OF stdout device is: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/isa@7/serial@0,3f8 PROM: Built device tree with 58456 bytes of memory. Top of RAM: 0x5feb8000, Total RAM: 0x3fe26000 Memory hole size: 512MB [0000000200000000-fffff80000400000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=0/0 [0000000200000000-fffff80000800000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=1/0 [0000000200700000-fffff80000c00000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=2/0 [0000000200700000-fffff80001000000] page_structs=131072 node=0 entry=3/0 Zone PFN ranges: Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0002ff5c Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[5] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00010000 0: 0x00020000 -> 0x0002f7ff 0: 0x0002f800 -> 0x0002ff00 0: 0x0002ff40 -> 0x0002ff4c 0: 0x0002ff54 -> 0x0002ff5c Booting Linux... Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 129492 Kernel command line: rw ks=http://192.168.0.3/ks/epsilon.cfg ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp noipv6 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) clocksource: mult[5a0000] shift[16] clockevent: mult[2d82d82] shift[32] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Memory: 1012520k available (2704k kernel code, 1160k data, 176k init) [fffff80000000000,000000005feb8000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 22.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=111231) Security Framework initialized SELinux: Initializing. Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Initializing cgroup subsys ns Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys devices net_namespace: 1536 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing for controllers. /pci@1f,0: SABRE PCI Bus Module /pci@1f,0: PCI IO[1fe02000000] MEM[1ff00000000] PCI: Scanning PBM /pci@1f,0 pci 0000:01:03.0: quirk: region 0800-083f claimed by ali7101 ACPI pci 0000:01:03.0: quirk: region 0600-061f claimed by ali7101 SMB ebus0: [flashprom] [eeprom] [idprom] [SUNW,lomh] power: Control reg at 1fe02000800 usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@c/eeprom@14,0: Clock regs at 000001fff1000000 tracer: 643 pages allocated for 65536 entries of 80 bytes actual entries 65586 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 10418k freed Mini RTC Driver audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) type=2000 audit(1238691368.470:1): initialized HugeTLB registered 4 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 8192 bytes) msgmni has been set to 1999 Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci 0000:01:03.0: nv_msi_ht_cap_quirk didn't locate host bridge pci 0000:01:07.0: nv_msi_ht_cap_quirk didn't locate host bridge pci 0000:01:07.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds pci 0000:01:0d.0: nv_msi_ht_cap_quirk didn't locate host bridge f007dfc0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1fe020003f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A Console: ttyS0 (SU) console [ttyS0] enabled f007fbe0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1fe020002e8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A brd: module loaded mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver TCP cubic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 17 registered taskstats version 1 Greetings. anaconda installer init version 11.4.0.83 starting mounting /proc filesystem... done creating /dev filesystem... starting udev...done mounting /dev/pts (unix98 pty) filesystem... done mounting /sys filesystem... done anaconda installer init version 11.4.0.83 using a serial console trying to remount root filesystem read write... done mounting /tmp as ramfs... done running install... running /sbin/loader Gdetecting hardware... waiting for hardware to initialize... install exited abnormally [0/0] -- received signal 10 sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /proc done /dev/pts done /sys done you may safely reboot your system _______________________________________________ Fedora-sparc mailing list Fedora-sparc@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-sparc