[Aurora-sparc-devel] No IDE drivers in 2.99?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 01:12 -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Hey folks, 
> 
> Been kinda quiet.  
> 
> I'm installing on a netra X1, and there are no disks available to
> anaconda because there is no ide driver.  Ultra10s also have (only) ide
> drives. What's up with the lack of ide drivers?

An oversight. Use the corona ISOs, they have IDE drivers:

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/aurora/corona/sparc/iso/

> Next question: How do you add drivers to a netboot/ftp install?  One
> never gets a boot loader prompt, and there doesn't seem to be any way to
> pass parms to the kernel.  I knew there was something about the change
> from tilo...

Just pass them at the OBP prompt:

boot net foo=bar baz

~spot