Re: Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned

[Fer R <fer_tec@hotmail.com>]

Again I,

I saw that I am not the unique human trying install Debian on this SPARC
machines. After a battle with them, my friends, I can tell you: the netinst
distros haven't all the necessary files, drivers and scripts for a proper
installation. You MUST download the complete ISO (at least the first disc).

The bad thing here.. is ... although I made all the things according to all
Sun manuals to do a boot from Harddisk after installation, I couldn't
achieve. If my Sun Server reboots, I have to connect to it through console
and write boot disk, or boot disk0 or whatever of the alias I configured..
but none of them works =(


If someone of you can help me with this... thanx in advance..........

Fer R




Fer R wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've solved this trouble doing a COLD REBOOT.
> 
> It is very simple:
> 
> Turn off your server, and disconnect the power supply cable. Wait about
> twice minutes and then turn on the server. Before do poweroff, I recommend
> change the default load to CDROM device in order to avoid boot from
> Harddisk device.
> From the ok prompt:
> ok setenv boot-device cdrom
> 
> and then, 
> ok reset-all
> 
> When the server has loaded, in the ok prompt:
> boot cdrom
> 
> When you do not need anymore boot from cdrom, reboot the server and in the
> ok prompt:
> ok boot disk0:a
> ok reset-all
> 
> 
> Good luck..
> F R
> 
> 
> 
> Joost van Baal-138 wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This might be the same bug as #509202.
>> 
>> I'll try to setup cu or minicom to collect kernel messages on tuesday,
>> while I am at the university again.
>> 
>> FWIW, the boot fails in the same way with
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso
>> , built on 20081104-23:58 :
>> 
>>  Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
>>  Loaded kernel version 2.6.26
>>  Loading initial ramdisk (4284688 bytes at ....
>>  Memory Address not Aligned
>> 
>> I'll try to get it to boot with the latest etch kernel on tuesday.
>> 
>> Thanks, Bye,
>> 
>> Joost
>> 
>> -- 
>> Joost van Baal                            http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
>>                                                  Tilburg University
>> mailto:joostvb.uvt.nl                               The Netherlands
>> 
>>  
>> 
> 
> 

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