SPARC-Linux on Sun Clones?

by Dan Week » Wed, 08 May 1996 04:00:00

Howdy:

I was wondering if anyone would know if the SPARC-Linux prot would be
able to run on machines that are from Sun clone makers like Axil and
Integrix. I am only asking because I feel that it would bee more worth
my money to purchase a clone at low cost that runs 100% compatable to
Sun SPARC's yet has more RAM, storage and speed and run Linux on it
rather thatn Slowaris. If you know, please let me know.

-dan

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Daniel Weeks

URL: http://mango.sfasu.edu/dan/dan.html
GIS Systems Administrator, College of Forestry
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA

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1. Sparc Linux and sparc clones

This is kind of two questions in one

I've just acquired an un-needed sparc clone from work - it's badged "Solair",
has a label underneath stating that it's made by DTK computers and anounces
itself as a "DTKstation/Classic+". I though that I might have a look at the
sparc port for fun.

So I copied the RedHat 4.0 sparc boot image (the v2 image since the machine
claims a version 2.9 ROM) and booted it up.

The kernel loads, identifies all (I think) of the hardware gets as far as
loading the ramdisk image and produces the message
"VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)."
and then hangs

So...

Is the problem that it's a clone (looks like a Sun to me, right down to the
ROM commands but I've not had much experience with clones).

Is the problem that it's a Sun4M (I recall that the sparc version doesn't work
on all of the sparc chips).

Is the problem that this machine is headless - it's connected to a VT220 (well
a Wyse pretending to be a VT220). Is there the equivalent of the serial console
patch for the sparc port and do I need it ?

Is it something else (all suggestions gratefully recieved).

Regards

Paul.

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