Installation problems onto Ultra1 of Debian/Woody
Hello,
I'm attempting to install Debian/Woody onto an UltraSparc1.
Problems occurred right from the outset.
1. "boot cdrom" brings up SILO w/ a "linux" and "rescue" option
2. picking "linux" or pressing ENTER (as it claims will start
installation) fails with "can't find /boot/sparc64.gz" or something almost
exactly like that.
3. picking "rescue" will start what appears to be a normal Debian
installation? (this is my first time installing Debian, sorry).
4. I partition my drive thusly:
/dev/sda1 5-32 Boot
/dev/sda2 33-200 Linux Swap
/dev/sda3 0-8100 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 201-8100 Linux native
5. I go through the installation, which seems to go well.
6. When I try to make a boot floppy, the whole machine locks up.
7. When I tell Debian to "Make system bootable" it "succeeds": ie: no
error, but on reboot, it complains:
Boot device disk:a file and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable
ok
8. When I try "rescue root=/dev/sda4" it never works. It just goes into
normal installation. /dev/sda4 is ext3 (ie: journalling) and I can mount
it during the installation.
Basically, I can't get anywhere after this. Everything I've tried comes to
no avail. The Debian SPARC installation guide seems to cover none of this,
so I may have done something stupid.
Help?
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Tim Ellis
Senior Database Architect
Gamet, Inc.
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