getting a working install ISOs on a T2000
Hi,
I tried hard installing Debian/sparc64, it was not easy at all and
haven't concluded.
The T2000 I started from had Linux already installed, with an older 4.x
series kernel, I'd guess not updated since 3 years. It was working and
was configured with SILO. I tried updating but the boot partition was
too small to fit old and new kernels, also the (partially?) installed
5.x kernel on reboot entered in an endless loop of crashes I could not
stop nor log.
Unfortunately the fresh install I did with one of the working ISOs
suffers from the same crashes!
I then went on with snapshots, going back from the latest I found...
2020-11-16 -> this one worked! (but system is unbootable due to crash,
of that in a second mail)
Later, all these die with in the same manner:
-- with 2020-12-03
-- with 2021-01-03
-- with 2021-02-02
Mar 8 23:43:22 main-menu[272]: WARNING **: Menu item 'localechooser'
failed.
Mar 8 23:43:22 main-menu[279]: /var/lib/dpkg/status: No such file or
directory
Mar 8 23:43:22 main-menu[279]: WARNING **: Configuring
'libdebian-installer4-u
Mar 8 23:43:22 main-menu[279]: WARNING **: Menu item 'localechooser'
failed.
Mar 8 23:43:22 kernel: [ 33.630772] random: crng init done
Mar 8 23:43:41 main-menu[279]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit
from 'hi
Mar 8 23:43:41 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Mar 8 23:43:41 kernel: [ 52.813059] main-menu[279]: segfault at 8 ip
0000010
Mar 8 23:50:59 init: process '/sbin/debian-installer' (pid 238) exited.
Schedu
Mar 8 23:50:59 init: starting pid 293, tty '/dev/ttyHV0':
'/sbin/debian-instal
<....>
Mar 8 23:51:00 debconf: Setting debconf/language to en
Mar 8 23:51:00 kernel: [ 491.248772] main-menu[312]: segfault at 8 ip
0000010]
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