Booting both Ubuntu 9.10 and 8.10 results in this error : " boot: Allocated 64 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Loaded kernel version 2.6.25 Loading initial ramdisk (6178206 bytes at 0xA1FF000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Data Access MMU Miss {2} ok " Interestingly, the machine returns to the boot prom instead of just dying altogether. Hope that helps :) Aaron On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:10 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:56:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:52:21AM +0200, Aaron Scheiner wrote: > > > My home network has DHCP server on it (Smoothwall) and two other > > > machines running Ubuntu. One of the Ubuntu machines has been configured > > > as a TFTP server (used it to hack a Mikrotik router a while back). In > > > other words, I should(?) have the environment to boot this Sun machine > > > via the network. > > > > > > As for the kernel, I found a guide today that should put me on the right > > > track : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CustomKernel . > > > > > > I'll work on it a little later today :) . > > > > While we're at it, you mentioned earlier that you tried Ubuntu Dapper (6.06) > > with 2.6.15 which also failed miserably - Ubuntu shipped a few more sparc > > releases other than that one, so you may get lucky with another one. A quick > > Google tells me that their 7.04 and 7.10 releases still had sparc, so try > > and find installer images from those. > > Oddly enough, once I actually figured out the right place to look on the > web site, I could also easily find newer ones: > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/hardy/release/ubuntu-8.04.1-server-sparc.iso > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/intrepid/release/ubuntu-8.10-server-sparc.iso > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/jaunty/release/ubuntu-9.04-server-sparc.iso > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/karmic/release/ubuntu-9.10-server-sparc.iso > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html