[SunRescue] Sparc 1 struggles

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Sun Apr 30 02:25:05 CDT 2000


On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Darryl Barile wrote:

> Alll the errors happen at the same point, after the machine has printed:
> 
> Booting from: sd(0,0,0) vmunix
> root on sd0a fstype 4.2
> Size 1343488+218832+131992 bytes
> 
> This is then followed by one of the errors above.
> The first value after size does vary but I'm not sure what it means.

Pull the FPU card completely.  The kernel should detect its absence and
emulate all FP ops in software.  This makes things such as X font scaling
extremely slow, but will hopefully either fix the problem or remove it
from the list of possibilities.

What OS version are you trying to boot?  4.1.3?

-James






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