Re: Tried and failed to netboot the Sun Netra X1
Dennis Clarke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc |
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| Organization | GENUNIX |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 8/31/25 07:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > On Sun, 2025-08-31 at 07:45 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> However eventually the GRUB just dies with no clue what to do. > > My suggestion would be to install using the netboot installer in Wheezy: > > https://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/ > yep .. that works : [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.0.18 2002/05/23 18:22' [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Root node compatible: sun4u [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-4-sparc64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 Debian 3.2.78-1 [ 0.000000] bootconsole [earlyprom0] enabled [ 0.000000] ARCH: SUN4U . . . > Or install SUSE Linux for SPARC: > > https://fsck.technology/software/SUSE%20Linux/SUSE%207.3%20SPARC/ > I never even thought of that. > Let me know when you want to try SUSE Linux for SPARC, I can send you the TFTP image. > > You can then replace the kernel with a custom one which I can provide to you > to test the kernel patch on your Netra X1. At the moment I can get wheezy running. It *may* be possible to drop the NETINST iso image onto the second disk using wheezy. No idea. SUSE Linux may be another way to go here or even Gentoo.