[CentOS-devel] CentOS 5.x for Sparc?

[Karanbir Singh]

Michael Worsham wrote:
> Thanks for the site/URL. I downloaded the tftp64.img and was able to get 
> my SunFire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe) to see the image and load it via my 
> CentOS 5 rarpd server.
> 
> However, I guess I am running into some sort of brick wall when it comes 
> to CentOS loading the correct NIC driver to assign an IP address to the 
> server. The V120's on-board network card is coming up as a eri0 and eri1 
> (Sun RIO 10/100 Ethernet [eri]).
> 
> If there a way to configure the command line via LOM interface it so it 
> loads the correct NIC driver, sets the ip, etc? I though about something 
> like kickstart, but the tftp64.img doesn't come up to a CentOS Linux 
> window -- just goes directly to where it starts loading drivers for the 
> SCSI drives, then waiting for the language location.
> 

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/network-booting-sparc-obp-machines#comments
first comment might interest you.

However, you will still need to work out what command you are going to 
pass though with what values.

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