Bug#281641: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso 2004-11-15
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Date: 2004-11-17 00:55:18 GMT
Method: Installed via ISO image downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20041116/
and also from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20041116/
Machine: Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus Creator
Processor: UltraSPARC 200MHz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: SCSI sd0 or sd1 as I have two drives in here.
Root Size/partition table: Never made it to this stage.
Output of lspci and lspci -n: Never made it to this stage.
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
ok boot cdrom
SILO 1.4.8
boot: <Enter>
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.4.27
Loading initial ramdisk (2895610 bytes at 0x1F408000 phys, 0x40C00000
virt)...
|
Remapping the kernel... FP Disabled
The above has happened to me almost every single time that I have tried
to install Debian on this machine. There was a few times, that I did
get Debian to install, but messed up things with the Logical Volume
Manager, and so had to try and re-install and the very disk that worked
would not work again. I can get NetBSD on it, but I want my apt-get
and my aptitude :)
The phys and virt address above are different from the times when I was
able to get it installed. I can not recall for the life of me
what they were, but I am 100% sure that the phys address was different.
Not so certain about the virt address.
I have gone through about 13-15 CDs of both the 'netinst' and the
'businesscard' ISO images since near the end of September when I
scrounged the Ultra 2 from a Lab at work to use as my day to day
system. It is now running NetBSD as I do need something to
run on the box so I can do my work.
What's frustrating is that CDs that worked at one point are not
working the next day !! Its not a memory issue because I am able
to get Solaris and NetBSD to both work on this system without
any problems.
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