and burned a the current Debian "businesscard" image for Sparc: wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r1a-sparc-businesscard.iso cdrecord -eject -v speed=2 dev=/dev/hdc -data -pad debian-31r1a-sparc-businesscard.iso Booting seems to work partially. SILO seems to start fine, and I get to the "boot:" prompt. When I press Enter I get to the point where it says "Loading Linux..."