Karmic for Sparc

[Michael Casadevall]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, John Cater <katre50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Netboot:
>> http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/karmic/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/
>>
>
> I just attempted to boot the netboot image on a VM on my SunFire T1000 (with
> four CPUs and 1GB of memory).
>
> I get this error:
>
> {0} ok boot net:dhcp,192.168.0.12,ubuntu-karmic-boot-sparc.img
> debconf/priority=low
> preseed/url=http://www.henchmonkey.org/ubuntu-server.seed
> Boot device:
> /virtual-devices at 100/channel-devices at 200/network at 0:dhcp,192.168.0.12,ubuntu-karmic-boot-sparc.img
> File and args: debconf/priority=low
> preseed/url=http://www.henchmonkey.org/ubuntu-server.seed
> ERROR: /packages/obp-tftp: Last Trap: Fast Data Access MMU Miss
>
> I'm not entirely sure what this means. Is there any further debugging I can
> do to find the source of the problem?
>

I can reproduce on my Sunfire. I think SILO broke when it was migrated
to GCC 4.4. Unfortunately, this freaking antique can't netboot, which
means its a PITA to spin a new image with a different SILO to config.

> Thanks,
> katre
>
>