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novasoy n00b
Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Louisville, KY
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: n00b with an Ultra 10 and boot problems |
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I recently obtained an Ultra 10, and I was wanting to install Gentoo on it. A couple nights ago, when I didn't have much time, I plunked in the LiveCD (universal) and booted from the cdrom. Everything went fine and I eventually got a bash prompt. I thought, "Great. I'm in business."
A night or two passed and I had some time, so I thought I would get my install rolling. Armed with my LiveCD, the awesome Gentoo install handbook, and a notebook, I sat down to work. I put in the cd. I booted from the CD. At SILO's boot prompt, I typed gentoo-2.4 and waited. The ramdisk did it's thing and *poof* I see a penguin. It goes through hardware detection, and I get that kernel panic error other posters have complained of. I don't know what that L1A key, or whatever, that it says to push to go back, so I do a Stop-A to get a OBP prompt.
At the OBP prompt, I type boot cdrom again. This time it gives me an illegal instruction error as the ramdisk initializes. Huh? I try over and over and over again. Once or twice, I see the penguin and get the Kernel Panic message. The rest of the times, I get the Illegal Instruction error when ramdisk initializes or shortly thereafter.
I didn't do anything between the time when it worked and last night when it didn't, so I believe nothing has changed. Why would the live cd work one day and not on the next?
My next question is pretty obvious: what do I do now?
Like I said I have a Sparc Ultra 10. I'm installing Gentoo 2004.1 (64 bit) which I downloaded 4/27 or 4/28. I burned the images to CD using 4x because I read somewhere that burning it faster can cause problems. I believe the Ultra 10 is pretty vanilla. The guy I bought it from at a yard sale didn't seem like much of a hacker.
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stonent Veteran
Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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In old Sun terminology L1 is the Stop button. I've talked with Gustavoz one of the developers (over IRC) and he might be releasing an alternate CD that does not have zisofs. Hopefully he will post in this forum if/when one comes out. _________________ Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
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sifusam n00b
Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 6
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 6:43 am Post subject: Same Problem Here |
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I had Gentoo installed back a few months ago, a 1.4 release I believe (switched to Solaris for a while, don't ask why). I still have the old CD and was wondering if anyone foresees any significant problems using the old release to begin an 2004.1 install? _________________ I stole this sig... |
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stonent Veteran
Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 5:39 am Post subject: |
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Untar a stage 1 and it will pretty much be the same. _________________ Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
Portage on Solaris|Dell Laptop Hacks
The way you feel about organized religion is the same way I feel about organized socialism. |
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GenTimJS Guru
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA
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Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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try just typing "gentoo" at the silo boot prompt, as opposed to giving the version # with it
as for the question of older install CDs, i just did an install on my ultra5 using the gentoo 1.4 rc2 install CD, and did a 2.6 install right from the start. No problems at all ... emerge -uUD really is a godsend.... _________________ -Tim Smith |
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