hi again ... it looks to me like the SPARC is trying to boot from the network, as Christopher said, hit Stop+A or Ctrl+Break to get yourself a prompt. On the Sparc here, I have to type "n" for new command mode", and then "boot /fd" to boot from the floppy ...
Andrew ------------------------------------------------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Gaitzsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Gaitzsch Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:43 AM To: Wilson Yau Cc: Andrew McRobert; 'Debian User Mailing List' Subject: Re: Debian Linux on Sun UltraSparc IIi >>>>> "WY" == Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Where did you fail in the boot process? ie. did the Sun access the floppy >> and spit out an error message, or did it simply say something like "can't >> find boot image" off the HDD? WY> When the system started booting, I saw it soughting the floopy drive as WY> the green light was on and off several times. WY> Shortly after displaying the system information like: WY> SPARCengine(tm) Ultra CP1400 (UltraSparc-IIi 303MHz) OpenBoot 3.10.9 ME WY> with 192MB RAM..... WY> Got this message: WY> Drive not ready WY> Boot device: net File and args: Hi, try changing the boot device. Type STOP + a, then "boot floppy". Greetings, Christoph -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
