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From: Mike Owen <kyphros@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Problem booting SPARC64 installcd on Blade2500 systems
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:24:17
Message-Id: 8f5ca2210610130823m6e623b3fy5a1a26db2d6fb847@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-sparc] Problem booting SPARC64 installcd on Blade2500 systems by Martin Andersen
1 On 10/13/06, Martin Andersen <martin.andersen@××××.org> wrote:
2 >
3 > <..begin BootPROM output..>
4 >
5 > Loading initial ramdisk (644214 bytes at 0x133F802000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
6 >
7 > ERROR: Last Trap: Illegal Instruction
8 >
9 > Error -256
10 >
11 > ERROR: Last Trap: Memory Address not Aligned
12 >
13 >
14 > <..end BootPROM output..>
15
16
17 It's been a while since I had to play around with a non-booting sparc,
18 but in the past the problem was an incompatibility between obp and
19 silo when booting from cd. I found that the best way for *me* was to
20 dig out my old Gentoo 1.4 cd, although I believe the 2005.0 disc
21 worked as well. On all the machines that refused to boot with the 2006
22 discs, they worked with one of those older ones.
23
24 Or, netboot always worked as well.
25
26 Mike
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] Problem booting SPARC64 installcd on Blade2500 systems Martin Andersen <martin.andersen@××××.org>