Re: [TCLUG:16064] SPARC fun

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brian wrote:

> I'm having a grand old time with my attempts of getting Red Hat running on
> my SPARCstation 5.  Both RH6.1 and RH6.2 hang when it starts formatting
> partitions.  I suspect that it's related to a disk problem but since I
> have no OS on the machine I can't verify this by any means.  Does anyone
> know where I could find an ISO image of a live, bootable linux partition
> for SPARC?  I'd like to boot linux off the CDROM and try diagnosing the
> disk problems further from the command line.  If anyone has any ideas I'd
> love to hear any suggestions.
> 

I just did an install on a SPARCstation 1+ yesterday, and to get it
working, I had to corrupt the partition table so it initialized the drive
itself. I had the same symtoms.. locking up on format. I managed to
corrupt the partition table somehow (dunno how, easiest way to do this is
low-level it..), and then everything started working. Give it a shot?

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