Honestly, it probably doesn't boot. The last kernel I knew to boot
successfully was 2.6.16, and that required patches.
My last round of notes is still here: https://sammy.net/sun3/
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).
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.
-- Sam
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 07:52:05PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
CC sammy
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:32 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since Arnd has waved with the axe at the Sun3 port this week, I would like to start
testing the port to make sure it still boots and if not, we can fix the problems.
I have three Sun3 machines in my basement that I can test the kernel on. However,
I have zero experience booting these machines, so I was wondering whether anyone
has booted Linux on these machines in the past and can tell me how that works.
Thanks,
Adrian
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