Bug#639958: installation-reports: Sun Ultra 10 with Creator 3D needs video=atyfb:off
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 02:33:44PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 21:26, Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org> wrote:
> > Initial boot was somewhat problematic, as the system appeared to freeze after a
> > few lines of kernel output. Since keys such as Caps and Num Lock still reacted
> > and the last message was about disabling the boot console, I surmised that it
> > switched to another output such as serial or ATI instead of the Creator 3D to
> > which the monitor was attached.
> >
> > The solution was to retry with "boot net video=atyfb:off". The rest of the
> > installation process worked flawlessly.
>
> Can you try to boot using Weekly build? So we can know if the kernel
> has fix this issue or we reassign it to linux-2.6 if it keep not
> working.
I downloaded the netboot daily build from
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img (file
change time 04-Sep-2011 00:18) and had no luck for a different reason:
loading the image aborts with "a00000 Fast Data Access MMU Miss". I'm
not very familiar with these Sun machines yet, but I suspect this means
that OpenBoot 3.11 can't load an image larger than 10 MB.
--
Andreas Bombe
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