Bug 29353 – My Gentoo CD just boots to SILO and then presents an error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Eddie 2003-09-22 11:19:50 UTC]

Hello,

I just downloaded the LiveCD (ISO) of version 1.4_rc4
I'm using a Sparcstation 1 and try to boot. This is the output:

SPARCstation 1
ROM Rev. 1.0, 28 MB memory installed, Serial #12648430.
Ethernet address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, Host ID: xxxxxxxx.



Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
>n
Type  help  for more information
ok boot sd(0,2,0)
Booting from: sd(0,2,0) 
SILO 
-- Welcome to Gentoo SPARC Linux --
--         Version 1.4           --

Boot options: gentoo and gentoo-smp

If you are using a serial console, please append serial to the end of your
boot option (e.g. "gentoo serial") for proper serial console support.

Please report any bugs you find to http://bugs.gentoo.org and assign them
to the Sparc team.

Thank you for using Gentoo Linux!
boot: gentoo serial
Loading initial ramdisk....
Data Access Exception
ok boot sd(0,2,0)
Booting from: sd(0,2,0) 
SILO 
-- Welcome to Gentoo SPARC Linux --
--         Version 1.4           --

Boot options: gentoo and gentoo-smp

If you are using a serial console, please append serial to the end of your
boot option (e.g. "gentoo serial") for proper serial console support.

Please report any bugs you find to http://bugs.gentoo.org and assign them
to the Sparc team.

Thank you for using Gentoo Linux!
boot: gentoo-smp serial
Loading initial ramdisk....
Data Access Exception
ok 

If you need any additional info, please don't hesitate to mail me!

Regards,
Eddie

[Comment 1 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) 2003-09-22 13:33:45 UTC]

Did you try using the latest LiveCD at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/sparc/livecd/sparc/gentoo-sparc-1.4_rc4-18Aug2003.iso.bz2 ?

[Comment 2 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) 2003-09-22 13:38:13 UTC]

Forget the last comment. Just got told that the old Sparcstations dont work with 2.4.x Kernels.

I am not sure if its possible to get a 2.2.x Kernel working on the LiveCD.
Maybe netboot or first installing Debian would be a solution...

[Comment 3 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-09-25 17:36:22 UTC]

Currently, the 2.4 kernels do not have working support for the sun4c cpus.
 Your best bet would be as Sven indicated and try one of the Debian netboot
images to see if they work for you.

[Comment 4 Sven Blumenstein (RETIRED) 2003-12-25 07:01:58 UTC]

No further comments, closing.