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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20040524/ and 20040526/ with business card and netinst iso's
uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sat Apr 24 01:43:10 EDT 2004 Sparc64 unknown
Date: Tues, May 25 and Wed, May 26
Method: OpenPROM command "boot cdrom", SILO command "linux"
Machine: Sun Ultra 1 143MHz, 96M, 2G, SBUS, Happy Meal Ethernet, IBM HD on SCSI ID 1, Toshiba CD-RW on SCSI ID 6
Processor: UltraSparc
Memory:96M
Root Device: SCSI HD ID 1
Root Size/partition table: N/A
Output of lspci: N/A
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [E]
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: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Kernel 2.4.26 boots with no noticeable issues, and correctly realizes that it's on a 64 bit CPU.
The network hardware config screen tries to load ide-cd and sr_mod and both fail.
I opened the console and tried "modprobe cdrom" and modprobe gave this error:
Using /lib/modules/2.4.26-sparc64/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o
ELF file [see above path] not for this architecture
Could not load the module: Success
(please forgive any typos, since the network was not working, I had to write all these messages down by hand)
I'm not familiar with linux (or anything else) on Sparc, but I do have plenty of debian experience on x86. Perhaps the CD has the wrong version of modutils or something?
I am unable to test the Beta4 releases or anthing else for that matter, since the sid builds are the only ones which boot at all, due to the earlier SCSI CD driver problem (kernel panic).
please let me know if you have any more questions or stuff you want me to try
Thanks,
NATE
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
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of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
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