zuzu on 31 Oct 2007 18:46:11 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] problem booting Gentoo install on Sun Blade 100 (SPARC)

  • From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] problem booting Gentoo install on Sun Blade 100 (SPARC)
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:46:04 -0400
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On 10/31/07, Michael Bevilacqua <michael@bevilacqua.us> wrote:
> Hi Sean-
>
> I was under the impression that Gentoo's Sparc64 install included only 2.4
> series kernels. Where did you acquire the 2.6's?
>

any of the Gentoo http mirrors, under releases, installcd.
e.g. http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/releases/sparc/
or http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/releases/sparc/

I tried both the 2007.0 and 2006.1 distributions, both kernels on
each.  I burned them at 4x; the 2006.1 booted to a point and then
printed a bunch of whitespace to the screen and then stopped.  I
thought maybe the old Lite-On CD-ROM drive had an issue with new media
burned at faster speeds, so I burned the 2007.0 iso at 1x and it
booted as far as the 2006.1 one did.  so maybe it's just a media issue
corrupting the reading of the data?  these disk images top out at
400MB so I doubt it's an "80-minute" CD (tighter / out of
specification spiral) thing.

maybe I should try burning a net boot disc at 1x instead, and try to
minimize how much data actually needs to be read from the disc...
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