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Re: New working sparc64 netinst image



On 29/12/15 20:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Still doesn't work really.

Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of
my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real
hardware?

Damn- can anybody remind me how to get at the OBP settings from inside Solaris? I've got an Netra-20 reserved for this but it's auto-booting and I don't have a USB Sun keyboard with a  Stop  key.

eeprom

Booted off pukka CD-RW. This very earliest step was something that Debian has frequently got wrong, so I think it's worth testing.

Several messages "EXT2 superblock magic is wrong"

^^^^^^^^^^
I wrote a reordering patch to hide that. It's entirely cosmetic since the error messages are a bit alarmist when they didn't need to be.
silo-1.4.14-iso-before-ext2.patch
diff -up silo-1.4.14/second/file.c.orig silo-1.4.14/second/file.c
--- silo-1.4.14/second/file.c.orig      2013-03-19 16:52:22.859860434 -0400
+++ silo-1.4.14/second/file.c   2013-03-19 16:55:12.831856827 -0400
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ extern struct fs_ops ufs_fs_ops;
 
 /* Array of our supported ops */
 static struct fs_ops *silo_fs_ops[] = {
-    &ext2_fs_ops,
     &iso_fs_ops,
+    &ext2_fs_ops,
     &rom_fs_ops,
     &ufs_fs_ops,
     NULL,
From solaris (and later from linux (eeprom is part of the prtconf package for linux))
eeprom auto-boot?=false
setting this to false is usually enough to do the trick



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