Bug#244294: marked as done (Installation report for Sparcstation 10 (netboot, serial console))
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From: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>
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Subject: Installation report for Sparcstation 10 (netboot, serial console)
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/2004-04-17/sparc32/netboot/boot.img
uname -a: Linux snoopy 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc GNU/Linux
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004
Method: Over serial console, by netbooting from a PC with rarpd and tftpd.
Machine: Sparcstation 10 (sun4m).
Processor: SuperSPARC TMS390
Memory: 80MB
Root Device: SCSI drive, Seagate ST1480N, 437 MB, /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: output of fdisk -l /dev/sda:
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 9 heads, 80 sectors, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 720 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 814 293040 1 Boot
/dev/sda2 814 923 39240 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 0 1018 366480 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 923 1018 34200 83 Linux native
Output of lspci:
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
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] (no CD is present in the system)
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E] (see comment [1] below)
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E] (see comment [2] below)
Comments/Problems:
[1] One minor problem which I encountered is triggered, when the chosen
mirror is bad (in my case the mirror I have chosen did not carry sparc
packages). I was then presented by a screen with an informational
message and three options: "Retry", "Change mirror", and "Cancel".
When choosing "Cancel", I was returned back to the very same screen
(does not seem correct), but I was able to get out using the
"Change mirror" option.
[2] A more serious problem occured after reboot. Even though I was installing
over a serial console, installer failed to recognize it, it seems. It
activated the usual 6 virtual consoles, however failed to activate
one for a serial port. As a result after the completion of configuration
I received a bunch of messages from init about getty respawning too
quickly and was left without a working console to login. Booting manually
with init=/bin/sh and editing inittab to start an mgetty on a serial
console fixed the problem.
One more minor quirk which I've noticed is an error message from apt-setup
(package base-config). The problem is the code snippet from it around line
326:
if [ -n $COUNTRY ]; then
db_set apt-setup/country $COUNTRY
fi
For multi-word country names (like US, for example) this will produce an error:
/usr/sbin/apt-setup: line 326: [: United: binary operator expected
The correct way is to surround references to $COUNTRY by quotes. I'll file
a bug about it for base-config.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
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Subject: Re: Bug#244294: Installation report for Sparcstation 10 (netboot, serial console)
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Then let's close this installation report. All issues addressed.
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see shy jo
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