"Illegal Instruction": booting LiveCD on Sparc Ult

joespr · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 22

Trying to boot from 2004.1 Sparc64 LiveCD on Sparc Ultra5 (over serial console).

I get the following:

boot: gentoo-2.4
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.4.25
Loading initial ramdisk (943758 bytes at 0x40C00000)...
Illegal Instruction
ok

I am running with 512 MB memory, 333 MHz, versions: OBP 3.15.2, POST 2.3.1

Is there anything I can do?

Thanks for your consideration.
joespr

frankOnPPC · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:14 am Post subject:

Its the silo-thing.

Silo 1.4.4 make 2004.1 unusable on the ultra 5.

try 2004.0, should be OK, Or look on some threads below you will find exactly the same.
A gentoo - devloper provides a 2004.1 with silo 1.3.2 which boot allright.
Look at the threads, there is a URL which you will find this version.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=188860

Cheers,
Frank
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joespr · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 22

Thank you, Frank for your advice.

I downloaded and used the 2004.1 with silo 1.3.2 from Gentoo developer. I can boot, but it hangs after the line:
* Auto-scrambling root password for security... [ ok ]

What to do...?

Thanks.

joespr · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 22

All OK now. Reset OBP to defaults... and like magic everything is OK.

joespr