🚀 go-pugleaf

"Ken" <wgold@mags.net> writes:
>Ok.. I finally found a distribution mirror with all the sparc RPM's
>on it (a tough job, let me tell you)

I tried www.infomagic.com and www.cdrom.com as most obvious
choices. I do not remember which but one of them had slowdown
problem but other steadily delivered 120K/s, I got both i386
and sparc in under two hours. It was two days after Slashdot
announced them.

>The boot comes up fine, I see the kernel unpack and begin
>crunching away, I see it find my scsi, ethernet, etc. It mounts
>the root filesystem readonly, then the last thing I see is this:

>Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k code, 4k data

>And that's it... It BOOTS from here!  It eventually even drops
>me to a login prompt, BUT... Here's what I've found so far:

I have SS-2, installed from serial terminal, and never needed
any fancy options. Try this: boot as usual, on silo prompt
say root=/dev/somthing ro init=/bin/bash. Then ensure that
/dev/console points to /dev/cua0. Reboot and watch your
messages. No need to "serial" argument to silo.

--Pete