[discussion refers to booting a 4/260 diskless] 

According to Bob:
>
>I think maybe the problem is some sort of kernel loader for the sparc.
> 

This was a suggestion that I received from Chuck in a previous discussion
about booting diskless. Due to some deadlines, I have not had the chance
to try this out. Let me know if this does the trick...

>>     My advice is to get it up diskless first.   The stuff on your
>> PC should be good enough to boot it.    The one thing you will
>> need is the second level bootstrap (/tftpboot/boot.sun4).   Do you
>> have access to that?   You can get it from any SunOS machine that 
>> boots diskless by tftp.
>> 

hope this helps,

cheers
alex

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