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quarantedeux
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:37 am    Post subject: Problems booting gentooo installcd 2008.0 sparc on V210 Reply with quote

Hi,

Can anybody help me with this problem?

Quote:
boot: gentoo
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.24
Loading initial ramdisk (1717076 bytes at 0x103F802000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
Memory Address not Aligned


Thx in advance
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dfelicia
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hit a similar issue on my Sun Blade 1000. Happened b/c I was hitting Stop-A before memory finished initializing.

Try resetting, wait until memory initialization finishes, then interrupt and boot cdrom. If still an issue, try making cdrom the 1st boot device and do a cold boot.

My other SPARC tip: use genkernel, which will automatically grab required firmware for qla controller, if you have one. See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/qla2xxx.xml
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armin76
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have solaris installed by any chance?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dunno if you are still having this problem, i had the issue on one of my sparc machines, try the 2007.1 and then:


set the bootmode to boot to cd then to disk0:a
reset all


When silo comes up, use the 2.6.17 kernel.


-weisso
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HRonzani
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this same problem.
After set boot-device to cdrom and do a cold boot (unplug AC cordlet), I get on sc> prompt. After this...

sc> console
ok boot

Voyla, gentoo boots nice!
Thanks for this great help
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