Subject: RE: netboot cant find init?
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@ENGR.ORST.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/1998 08:13:20
On 24-Feb-98 Tim Rightnour wrote:
>
> On 24-Feb-98 Nathan Gelbard spoke unto us all:
># In my Sparc ELC saga...
>#
># (i'm booting via serial console because I have no keyboard as of yet)
>#
># bwtwo0 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0x0: SUNW,501-1561, 1152 x 900
># bwtwo0: attached to /dev/fb
>#
># This is correct, but when it hits this my screen goes into what looks
># like a mode that is 'out of sync' with what it should be running at.
># Shakey horizontal lines (light grey).
>#
>
> I had this problem on my sparc1 when I tried to boot with no memory in bank
> 0.
> It just refused to come up at all however like that. Perhaps it is trying
>to indicate a problem of some sort.
My whole 4mb of RAM is in bank 0.
thanx anyway,
nate