[Bug 40119] Re: SPARC boot failed: Illegal Instruction

[MS]

Hello-

1/3 : I could not get myself to throw away a SunBlade 100 from my school
lab AND I am a novice when it comes to computers.

2/3 : I initially had the 'Illegal instruction' problem when I simply booted through the CDROM :
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.15
Loading initial ramdisk (6405187 bytes at 0x3E002000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
Illegal Instruction

3/3 : , BUT, Thanks to Jeff Buddington's post attached below. I was able
to install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server edition without *any* problem.

Murali Murugavel.

Hello-

I had similar problems trying to migrate a Netra t1 with 1GB RAM to
Ubuntu 6.06.

Seemed that if the system touched the disk with Solaris then I would get
a similar message.

Here is what I did (for information only, use at your own risk) which is pretty straight forward:
-make a note of your boot-device
1. Send L1-A (TeraTerm Pro Alt-B for Break)
2. insert Ubuntu 6.06 cdrom
3. In openboot, type:
setenv boot-device cdrom
3. Completely power off and unplug System.
4. waiting 60 seconds, plug system back in
5. let it boot up to cdrom
6. press enter to install
7. after the install completes, don't forget to set your boot-device back to what it was before:
setenv boot-device disk
8. type: boot

Jeff Buddington
jbudding at yahoo.com

It worked fine after this.

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SPARC boot failed: Illegal Instruction
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