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Bug#509178: marked as done (installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned)

Your message dated Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:42:12 +0100
with message-id <[🔎] 20081223134212.GC8004@dijkstra.uvt.nl>
and subject line booting Debian installer kernel on SunBlade from CDROM is not really supported (was: Re: Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned)
has caused the Debian Bug report #509178,
regarding installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: important



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-businesscard.iso built on 20081218-10:06
Date: vr dec 19 10:50:07 CET 2008

Machine: SunBlade 2000 SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 (UltraSPARC-III+)
Partitions:


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

Initial boot:           [E]
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:

Using a VT420 console.  Boots from CDROM, starts SILO Version 1.4.13,
display welcome message (welcome to Debian GNU/Linux lenny! [...]
built on 20081218-10:06 [...]).

 boot:
 Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
 Loaded kernel version 2.6.26
 Loading initial ramdisk (4284688 bytes at ....
 Memory Address not Aligned

Choosing "boot: rescue" or "boot: expert" gives the same.  The machine
boots SunOS 5.8 from its disk0 just fine, so the hardware apparently is
quite OK.

The machine has 2048 MB memory installed.  I'll try to collect output
from report-hw for this bugreport once I have found a working Linux
kernel for this machine.

Thanks for working on the Debian Installer!

Bye,

Joost

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Hi,

Op Sat 20 Dec 2008 om 10:43:17 +0100 schreef Joost van Baal:
> 
> This might be the same bug as #509202.
> 
> I'll try to setup cu or minicom to collect kernel messages on tuesday,
> while I am at the university again.
> 
> FWIW, the boot fails in the same way with
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso
> , built on 20081104-23:58 :
> 
>  Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
>  Loaded kernel version 2.6.26
>  Loading initial ramdisk (4284688 bytes at ....
>  Memory Address not Aligned
> 
> I'll try to get it to boot with the latest etch kernel on tuesday.

Which fails too.

On
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch05s03.html#sparc-boot-problems
it says: "We recommend to install [SunBlade] systems by netbooting the
installer."

I am confident that'll work out fine: closing this bug.

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal                            http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
mailto:joostvb.uvt.nl                               The Netherlands

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