🚀 go-pugleaf

Greetings,

Having tried a couple of "dry runs" with Linux before - I thought I
would take the plunge and do something useful with my Sun SPARCStation
IPC, so I bought a copy of RedHat 4.2 for SPARC from Leonard Chan
(whom I would recommend to anyone - thank you Leonard).

After creating a boot floppy according to Red Hat's instructions and
then struggling with their "boot floppy" command. ("boot floppy" my
fat hairy butt! Try "boot fd(,0,0)" at the prom monitor prompt), I
finally thought I wqs getting somewhere.

Got to the stage of:

   Booting from: fd(0,0,0)
   SILO boot
   Uncompressing image.......

and the whirlygig whirlygigging for a while. Only to see it rudely
interrupted by an audible "clunk" and the message:

Watchdof resest
Data Access Exception

and the prom monitor prompt of 

ok

After this, every time I try to boot from fd again, I get the booting
message and then the floppy ejects. Rebooting the machine and halting
again cures this but still I have the same problem of the watchdog
reset.

I realise that this a Sun problem rather than simply Linux but does
anyone hav any ideas? Apart from setting my Weimaraners on the bloody
watchdog :)

Nigel

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