I just thought I'd let you know that OpenBSD's guys have managed to get OpenBSD running on this machine. Aaron On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 10:26 +0200, Aaron Scheiner wrote: > 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