Recently I have been trying to create a bootable HelenOS CD for the Serengeti machine containing the UltraSPARC III processor. I decided to use SILO as a bootloader. The Sunfire machine with the UltraSPARC II processor was able to boot from the CD without any problems. On Serengeti, however, the boot process ended with an error. SILO even did not print its banner.

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