Bug#722728: Installer does not boot on UltraSparc Workstation
Georg,
Here is a possible work around to your issue....
I was able to get a SPARC Ultra45 to install Debian wheezy from a
netinstall
CDROM (debian-7.1.0-sparc-netinst.iso 2013-06-16 06:57) via
a serial tty console and also using a netinstall via the GUI console.
The key here is, I was seeing the same problem you were and
dug into it. Turns out the video card (standard XVR-100 S01 (ATI radeon))
is broken under Debian wheezy (it was also somewhat broken under Debian
squeeze, but worked enough to not be an issue). To get this to work you
will
need to remove the video card and use the serial port as a console.
I also tried a few other cards which did not work ...
the one that was somewhat usable was the ATI FireGL V3100
which was fine during the install... but useless after the system came up
(the fonts are something undecipherable, but that is another issue to track
down).
The easy route...
- install using the serial port console to another machine
you will have to change the OBP settings ...
Note: change autoboot or you can't get back from SILO
to OBP easily....
// This is from debian squeeze
# eeprom output-device=ttya
# eeprom input-device=ttya
# eeprom auto-boot?=false
// OR from OBP
setenv output-device tty
setenv input-device tty
setenv auto-boot? false
Then just boot from the netinstall disk...
{1} ok boot cdrom
The machine is a standard SUN Ultra45
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno)
fpu : UltraSparc IIIi integrated FPU
pmu : ultra3i
prom : OBP 4.21.6 2006/03/31 15:02
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 2
ncpus active : 2
D$ parity tl1 : 0
I$ parity tl1 : 0
cpucaps :
flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,ultra3,mul32,div32,v8plus,vis,vis2
Cpu0ClkTck : 000000005f5e1000
Cpu1ClkTck : 000000005f5e1000
MMU Type : Cheetah+
State:
CPU0: online
CPU1: online
# uname -a
Linux xxxspit 3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 sparc64
GNU/Linux
hot# lspci -knn
0000:02:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532 Versatile
PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
0000:03:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532 Versatile
PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
0000:03:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532 Versatile
PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
0000:03:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532 Versatile
PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
0000:03:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532 Versatile
PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
0000:03:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532 Versatile
PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
0000:04:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ULi Electronics Inc. M5249 HTT to PCI
Bridge [10b9:5249]
0000:05:1c.0 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1
Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Motherboard [10b9:5237]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
0000:05:1c.1 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1
Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Motherboard [10b9:5237]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
0000:05:1c.2 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1
Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Motherboard [10b9:5237]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
0000:05:1c.3 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 2.0
Controller [10b9:5239] (rev 01)
Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. Device [10b9:5238]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
0000:05:1d.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ULi Electronics Inc.
M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device [10b9:5455] (rev 21)
Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Motherboard [10b9:5455]
0000:05:1e.1 Bridge [0680]: ULi Electronics Inc. M7101 Power Management
Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
0000:05:1f.0 IDE interface [0101]: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE
[10b9:5229] (rev c8)
Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE [10b9:5229]
Kernel driver in use: pata_ali
0000:06:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X Bridge
[1166:0103] (rev b3)
0000:07:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5715 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1678] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Oracle/SUN Device [108e:1678]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
0000:07:04.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5715 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1678] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Oracle/SUN Device [108e:1678]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
0000:0a:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 41210 [Lanai] Serial
to Parallel PCI Bridge (A-Segment Bridge) [8086:0340] (rev 09)
0000:0a:00.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 41210 [Lanai] Serial
to Parallel PCI Bridge (B-Segment Bridge) [8086:0341] (rev 09)
0000:0b:01.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic
SAS1064 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS [1000:0050] (rev 02)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device [1000:3020]
Kernel driver in use: mptsas
0001:02:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee
ATI RV370 5B64 [FireGL V3100 (PCIE)] [1002:5b64] (rev 80)
Subsystem: Device [530c:0e55]
Kernel driver in use: radeonfb
Cheers
Karl
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