Bug#309028: installation report Sun Ultra 10 sarge rc3

[Steve Pacenka <spacenka@lightlink.com>]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: Sarge rc3, businesscard iso from cdimage.debian.org
uname -a: Linux naxos 2.4.27-2-sparc64 #1 Mon Feb 14 19:11:37 PST 2005 sparc64 GNU/Linux

Date: 12 May 2005
Method: Boot a businesscard cd, install from http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ ,
   no proxy

Machine: Sun Ultra 10
Processor: UltraSparc IIi 400 MHz
Memory: 320M
Root Device: 73G Seagate SCSI hard drive, on Symbios PCI controller card
Root Size/partition table: /boot 60M, / 20G, swap 512M, /x1 50G
Output of lspci and lspci -n:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIi
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge (rev 13)
0000:00:01.1 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Bridge (rev 13)
0000:01:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS (rev 01)
0000:01:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal (rev 01)
0000:01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c)
0000:01:03.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:02:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
0000:02:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
0000:02:03.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 04)

0000:00:00.0 0600: 108e:a000
0000:00:01.0 0604: 108e:5000 (rev 13)
0000:00:01.1 0604: 108e:5000 (rev 13)
0000:01:01.0 0680: 108e:1000 (rev 01)
0000:01:01.1 0200: 108e:1001 (rev 01)
0000:01:02.0 0300: 1002:4750 (rev 5c)
0000:01:03.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:02:01.1 0c03: 1033:0035 (rev 41)
0000:02:01.2 0c03: 1033:00e0 (rev 02)
0000:02:03.0 0100: 1000:000f (rev 04)


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
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:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:

A very smooth install of the base system, with one esoteric error.

The installer does not update the boot-device openboot (prom) variable.  Unless 
the installation happens to be in the exact place named by the old setting 
of boot-device, the reboot will fail.  It took an hour of googling to 
figure out what the openboot path is to a SCSI drive attached to a PCI
card.  For others who end up in the same state:

  /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/disk@2,0

is the path for a SCSI drive with ID 2 on a PCI SCSI card in slot 3.  Use
probe-scsi-all from the openboot prompt to find out most of this.

-- 
Steve Pacenka <spacenka@lightlink.com>