LiveCD 1.4rc4 for sparc64 fails to boot on Ultra 1 (the regular, non-enterprise edition). It works up until SCSI initialization, at which point the following is displayed repeatedly ad infinitum: esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt esp0: disconnect, resetting bus esp0: resetting scsi bus A self-compiled 2.4.20 kernel (sparc-sources) boots fine, so it seems to be an issue with the configuration of the livecd kernel. However, since I managed to nuke the SILO installation on the machine, it's slightly annoying not being able to boot of CDROM... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Please try one of the newer LiveCD available in /gentoo/experimental/sparc/livecd/sparc64
If you try one of the LiveCDs from http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/sparc/livecd/sparc64/, particularly the later ones, does it boot for you?
Need more info before I can proceed. Feel free to re-open. Thanks.
After having tried almost all the different LiveCD's without any success, I changed the CDROM drive (mostly by chance, because I wanted to boot from a CDRW which this drive couldn't read) and then it worked fine! So it seems it was a hardware problem with the old Apple SCSI CDROM I was using. Sorry for the noise.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
