Bug#500795: Etch SPARC install fails to sync monitor.
Package: installation-reports
Version: 4.0r4
The installer used is the "Small CD" image for sparc (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r4a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-40r4a-sparc-netinst.iso). The hardware is a SunBlade 2000 with a Sun PGX64 graphics card. An LCD monitor is connected to the PGX64. After the "Booting Linux" line reported by the installer the monitor goes out of sync and nothing further is reported.
My initial guess is that the installer is trying to change graphic modes at this step and that it picks one that the monitor does not support. This may be related to Debian Bug report #308610. I tried "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" as per http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch05s02.html.en however this did not have any effect. The manual reports that "Generally, only the newt frontend is available on default install media." so I don't know if this parameter actually does anything.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions for keeping the installer from changing graphic modes or for specifying the appropriate monitor frequency to the installer.
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