Bug#275627: [sparc][netinst][20041007] failure: sun blade 100

[Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au]

yet more more (unsuccessful) attempts.
These were all done with the serial port connected, but that's all.
No monitor, no keyboard, no mouse.

1. JoshK mini-iso (20041015)
   Power up.
   Let solaris boot part way (I had the wrong baud rate set)
   send <BRK>
   ok boot cdrom

   system starts booting, panics unable to mount root.
   see joshk.log in attachment.
   The system does not respond to <BRK> or whatever, I had to power down.


   I tried again but had trouble after sending the BRK, the
   serial port was sometimes left in a mangled state; I had an
   ok prompt from the PROM but was unable to type anything.
   Sending <BRK> during the solaris boot always worked.

2. sarge netinst 20041015
   Tried sending <BRK> during the solaris boot, as above.
   Fails to boot, cramfs problem.
   See daily.log

   Could not get around this by finding a magic moment to interrupt
   the boot.


Should I be giving debian-installer/probe/usb=false ?
It's not really clear to me usb is the problem in the tests above.

Can I get the lspci data from within solaris?

Regards
Vince