As Vince asked, I just forward this message to the lists. Maybe next time he'll just send it himself :-) Friendly, Wiktor Wandachowicz ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:28:01 +1000 (EST) From: Vincent McIntyre <Vince.McIntyre@atnf.csiro.au> To: Wiktor Wandachowicz <wiktorw@ics.p.lodz.pl> Cc: jurij@wooyd.org Subject: Re: Status of Debian on Sun Blade 150 Hi Wiktor, Juirij Andreas has made some progress! See logs attached. I could not make a full install, as the box is still needs to run solaris. Please could you forward this report to -sparc and maybe -boot. I'm not subscribed to either, I simply can't afford the distraction at the moment. Cheers Vince ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: netinst from http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/iso.img MD5 sum: 03f1445c82c80e51254b55616eb99479 'file' output: Sun disk label 'CD-ROM Disc with Sun sparc boot created by mkisofs' 768 alts/cyl, 768 data cyls, -2135424256 blocks, boot block present uname -a: 2.4.27 Date: 2005 04 24 Method: see comments section Machine: Sun SunBlade 100 Processor: Ultrasparc-IIe (ie sun4u, or "sparc64" arch) Memory: 384Mb Root Device: ide Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci and lspci -n: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E/O] (see below) Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] Comments/Problems: The command sequence was: solaris# halt ok setenv auto-boot? false ok reset-all [reboots] ok boot cdrom SILO 1.4.9 boot: <ret> starts booting, panics when trying to mount root fs & locks up solid. [power down] count to ten.. [power up] ok boot cdrom SILO 1.4.9 boot: <ret> [installer comes up with "choose language" screen] Choose Language: English Country: Australia Choose keyboard layout: <Go Back> (it offered a bunch of sun type5 mappings) Main menu: Choose keyboard layout Choose keyboard type: USB Choose keyboard layout: American English [red screen - select keyboard layout failed] (choose_keymap selects mac-usb-us, even though the keyboard was detected as a NON-apple keyboard. Tsk. It looks like the process (#459) calling kbd-chooser (process #461) segfaults. The logs say kbd-chooser failed with error code 139. ) Main menu: Choose keyboard layout Choose keyboard type: None Main Menu: detect and mount cdrom [ displays a ton of modules, all turned on ] <Continue> [ installer detects cdrom and loads the installer components ] Main Menu: configure network [ installer tries to configure with dhcp, this fails ] <configure network manually> Partition Hard disk: <exit> PS: Using netcat to transfer installation logs from 'a' to 'b' The port number is arbitrary, but do check it isn't used first. b% script var-log-messages Script started on Sun Apr 24 16:52:30 2005 b% nc -l -p 10002 a On a, where the installer is running, get into the console (<c><a><f2>) # nc -p 10002 b < /var/log/messages On b, b% exit Script done on Sun Apr 24 16:54:30 2005 (for dmesg output: # dmesg 2>&1 | nc -p 10002 b )
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