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Bug#419698: marked as done (sunblade100 won't boot etch installer)

Your message dated Mon, 14 May 2007 10:26:20 +0200
with message-id <200705141026.21129.elendil@planet.nl>
and subject line Bug#419698: sunblade100 won't boot etch installer
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere.  Please contact me immediately.)

Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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Package: debian-installer

Boot method: CD ISO
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/sparc/iso-cd/debian-40r0-sparc-CD-1.iso
Date: Tue Apr 17 09:11:54 EDT 2007

Machine: SunBlade 100
Processor: UltraSPARC-IIe
Memory: 128MB
Partitions: n/a

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:  n/a (didn't get this far)

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [ ]
Detect network card:    [ ]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

At the open boot prompt, I typed

boot cdrom
and SILO loaded a splash screen that gives me 3 options -- the default is "Boot install" and I'm also offered the opportunity to type "expert" or "rescue" at the command line. All three options get exactly the same result: 

Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.18
Loading initial ramdisk (3879265 byes at 0x78000000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
-
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
Just after the last line appears (Booting Linux...) the screen darkens for 1/2 a second or so (as if the video capabilities of the machine are being interrogated) and then the same white boot screen with the black text I've pasted above comes back on and the machine is completely frozen. 



I'm happy to test any proposed or attempted fixes.

	thank you very much for your work on debian,
		~c

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On Tuesday 17 April 2007 15:45, Frans Pop wrote:
> Sunblades are known to have problems with booting from CD. Suggest you
> try to install using a netboot image instead. See the installation
> guide for details.

Correction. The problem is almost certainly just that framebuffer support 
for your ATI graphics controller is broken.

See this thread for the details and a workaround: 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/05/msg00030.html

As this is a known issue, I'm closing your report.

Cheers,
FJP

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