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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In these situations I really like pre-built disk images and a SCSI emulator as a sanity check. <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Todd on this list has some for Sun:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.oldsilicon.com/workstationdiskimages" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.oldsilicon.com/workstationdiskimages</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I believe the IPC image should work for you.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Once I know that the system is able to boot an OS, then I move to debugging my install process/etc</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">mike</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 01:01:44 PM CDT, Mouse via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">> Finally, I looked up how to boot NetBSD/sparc in a diskless<br clear="none">> configuration and set up another computer to host. Again, all looked<br clear="none">> well to start: I entered "boot net", saw some numbers running across<br clear="none">> the screen which I assume is a size counter for the boot program,<br clear="none">> then finally "Illegal instruction" once again.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That may indicate slightly broken hardware (CPU, RAM, whatever); it may<br clear="none">also indicate that you're not feeding it the correct code. If you<br clear="none">haven't booted any sun4c diskless before, it's easy to get things<br clear="none">wrong.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you got to the point of number counting, I suspect you've got RARP<br clear="none">and TFTP working; I can send you a known-working NetBSD netbooter. It<br clear="none">won't help much without a NetBSD to boot, but (a) it might be valuable<br clear="none">as a crosscheck on what you have so far (if the booter works you should<br clear="none">get at least the netboot prompt) and (b) I could also send you a<br clear="none">matching NetBSD kernel or even a full netboot setup.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Unless you want to run old NetBSD, this would be useful only as a way<br clear="none">to check your boot setup, but that might be useful, and for all I know<br clear="none">maybe you _would_ like to run old NetBSD. If you're trying to run<br clear="none">SunOS, I think it's pickier about sun4c versus sun4 versus sun4m than<br clear="none">NetBSD is, but I can't recall details - it's been at least thirty years<br clear="none">since I used SunOS.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you want to contact me off-list and the email in the headers or my<br clear="none">signature doesn't work, I'd suggest mouse@netbsd.org, which forwards to<br clear="none">the same place but sometimes works when direct mail doesn't.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">/~\ The ASCII Mouse<br clear="none">\ / Ribbon Campaign<br clear="none"> X Against HTML <a shape="rect" href="mailto:mouse@rodents-montreal.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mouse@rodents-montreal.org</a><br clear="none">/ \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B<div class="ydp72d2dd3cyqt8408092029" id="ydp72d2dd3cyqtfd32514"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">rescue list - <a shape="rect" href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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