Bug#275628: #275628 success, at last
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The installer now supports this hardware. The only trick to installation
is to power cycle immediately before booting off the cdrom.
Full report below.
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: netinst 20041015, from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/20041015/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux grus1 2.4.27-1-sparc64 #1 Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-11-06
Method:
How did you install? from netinst cd
What did you boot off? netinst cd,
If network install, from where?
Proxied?
Machine: Sun Ultra 10, OpenBoot 3.11
Processor: Ultra Sparc IIi 300 MHz
Memory: Socket 1: 128
Socket 2: 128
Socket 3: 64
Socket 4: 64
total - 384Mb
Root Device: /dev/hda (IDE disk)
Root Size/partition table:
Initially had a sun partition table, which I blew away.
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8894 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 0 207 97807+ 1 Boot
/dev/hda2 207 635 202230 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 0 8894 4202415 5 Whole disk
/dev/hda4 635 3810 1500187+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda5 3810 5168 641655 83 Linux native
/dev/hda6 5168 6755 749857+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 6755 7284 249952+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 7284 8894 760725 83 Linux native
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 108e:a000
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIi
0000:00:01.0 0604: 108e:5000 (rev 11)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Brid
ge (rev 11)
0000:00:01.1 0604: 108e:5000 (rev 11)
0000:00:01.1 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Brid
ge (rev 11)
0000:01:01.0 0680: 108e:1000 (rev 01)
0000:01:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS (rev 01)
0000:01:01.1 0200: 108e:1001 (rev 01)
0000:01:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal (re
v 01)
0000:01:02.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a)
0000:01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT
[Mach64 GT] (rev 9a)
0000:01:03.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 03)
0000:01:03.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PC
I0646 (rev 03)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E] see discussion
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
The system was running Solaris (2.6) before installation.
Shut system down with
# halt
In OpenBoot,
ok boot cdrom
at SILO prompt
boot: <return>
the boot started ok, then failed with:
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
so I pressed the magic combo and got back to the boot prom.
<L1>-A
ok boot cdrom
at SILO prompt
boot: <return>
failed in the same way
Inserted joshk disk (20041015), same failure.
Power down.
Power up.
<L1>-A during "Initializing memory"
ok boot cdrom (joshk disk still)
Initializing Memory \
SILO 1.4.8
boot: <ret>
NOW it works.
Power down.
Power up.
Load d-i netinst 20041015.
<L1>-A during "Initializing memory"
ok boot cdrom
SILO 1.4.8
boot: <ret>
Installation proceeded as normal from this point.
Moral of the story: power cycle before trying to install sparcs.
During partitioning I tried auto-partitioning. This made [swap] and /tmp
a bit small for my liking (236M, not 2x memory, 768M) but otherwise did ok.
Nice work team!
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