I'm trying to install CentOS SPARC on a Netra T1, but it boots from disk and i want to know how to enter the bios and set up that boots from cdrom. The other problem i have is that when the Netra T1 is booting it gets stuck when makes a NIS request, and says "Time out for NIS to come up". I know this problem doesn't have relation with CentOS but if somebody has installed CentOS SPARC on a Netra T1 before, i'd appreciate the help. --------------------------------- Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060308/a0de8c0f/attachment.html>
On 08/03/06, Henry Rodriguez <henrucho_rodriguez at yahoo.com> wrote:> I'm trying to install CentOS SPARC on a Netra T1, but it boots from disk and > i want to know how to enter the bios and set up that boots from cdrom. The > other problem i have is that when the Netra T1 is booting it gets stuck when > makes a NIS request, and says "Time out for NIS to come up". > I know this problem doesn't have relation with CentOS but if somebody has > installed CentOS SPARC on a Netra T1 before, i'd appreciate the help.I've not installed CentOS on Sparc but in order to get into the OBP (Open Boot Prompt), or "ok" prompt as it's sometimes known, you need to send a break signal. If you're connected via serial cable and using something like Hyperterm from a Windows system then I think CTRL-Pause/Break does what you need. If you've got a Sun keyboard (I can't recall if Netra T1s have keyboard/video connections on them?) then STOP-A has the same effect.>From the OBP you should be able to boot from CD with...ok> boot cdrom I guess the NIS problem's most likely because the system's trying to netboot? Unless there's already an OS on there and it's looking for a NIS server. Will.
I'm trying to install CentOS SPARC, but the problem comes after i make "ok boot cdrom", the machine starts to boot, but i get the below ouyput Environment monitoring: Disabled Executing last command: boot cdrom Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1,1/ide at d/cdrom at 0,0:f File and args: SILO Version 1.4.9 \ boot: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel Uncompressing image... Loaded kernel version 2.6.9 Loading initial ramdisk (2051440 bytes at 0x3F802000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... \ Remapping the kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss ok After that it doesn't get any further, and i can not continue with the installation. Am i doing somethig wrong? Is it problem with the CD's? Thanks for the help.. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com