Re: Setting up an old Debian on an old Sun
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 19:10 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> For reasons that seemed good at the start of the weekend, I'm trying to
> get a copy of Sarge onto a SPARCstation IPC. Basically, I want something
> compact with a 2.4 kernel as a repository for some kernel hacking I did
> a few years ago.
>
> The old IPC won't boot from CD, so I'm doing the installation on an
> SS20. That's fine, except that I don't think it's putting SILO's
> first-stage loader where the IPC's ROM can find it: if I do something
> like boot sd(0,3,2) it pauses and then sits there flickering the drive
> activity light without any indication that it's found SILO.
I don't see why it would not boot from a SCSI CDROM, except it needs to
use a special block size (512 bytes if I remember correctly).
Right: http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ipc/
> Can anybody remember the magic incantation needed to get this going?
Honestly, IPC's architecture is "sun4c", while SS20 is "sun4m".
Though sun4c is not supported by Sarge or Etch, nor even Woody it seems,
which was the first Debian to ship with kernel 2.4 (2.4.18).
You're out of luck there.
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