Hi Sam! On 1/16/21 2:05 AM, Sam Creasey wrote:
Honestly, it probably doesn't boot. The last kernel I knew to boot successfully was 2.6.16, and that required patches.
I guess then we have something to fix :-).
My last round of notes is still here: https://sammy.net/sun3/
OK, thank you. I will have a look.
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).
Great. I will probably try the old stuff first, then switch to a newer kernel and report any issues I run into to the list.
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.
Sounds good. Let's get this back into working state! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
