Subject: RE: netboot cant find init?
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@ENGR.ORST.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/1998 08:13:20
On 24-Feb-98 Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> On 24-Feb-98 Nathan Gelbard spoke unto us all:
># In my Sparc ELC saga...
># 
># (i'm booting via serial console because I have no keyboard as of yet)
># 
># bwtwo0 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0x0: SUNW,501-1561, 1152 x 900
># bwtwo0: attached to /dev/fb
># 
># This is correct, but when it hits this my screen goes into what looks
># like a mode that is 'out of sync' with what it should be running at.
># Shakey horizontal lines (light grey).
># 
> 
> I had this problem on my sparc1 when I tried to boot with no memory in bank
> 0. 
> It just refused to come up at all however like that.  Perhaps it is trying
>to indicate a problem of some sort.

My whole 4mb of RAM is in bank 0.

        thanx anyway,

        nate