After several unsucessful tries I found vanilla kernel 2.6.26.5 SMP able to netboot on V480 and V880 and stable enough to execute the installer. Fiddling with the modules now.
Things I found helpfull so far: 1) http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/ for a default debian sparc kernel .config 2) a little script to extract the installer initramfs from the netboot images: #!/usr/bin/python # (C) Hermann Lauer 2008 # can be distibuted under GPLv3 or later import sys f=file(sys.argv[1]) GZIPSIG='\037\213\010' x=f.read() #print x.count('\037\213\010'),x.count('\037\236') cnt=1 loc=0 while True: loc=x.find(GZIPSIG,loc) if loc<0: break fn="arch_%i.gz"%cnt print fn,loc f=file(fn,"w") f.write(x[loc:]) f.close() loc+=1 cnt+=1 3) make tftpboot.img ROOT_IMG=/tmp/arch_2.gz 4) bug #464445 for the qlogic firmware (not tested yet) Greetings Hermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
