Re: Cobalt Qube2 Installation Problem: UNIT BOOT FAILED
--- On Thu, 19/8/10, Ted Krovetz <tdk@acm.org> wrote:
> From: Ted Krovetz <tdk@acm.org>
> Subject: Re: Cobalt Qube2 Installation Problem: UNIT BOOT FAILED
> To: debian-mips@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thursday, 19 August, 2010, 19:22
> Back from my trip.
>
> I've tried all suggestions as to how to get my Cobalt Qube
> 2 to run Debian, and nothing seems to work. I've tried
> different memory, hard drives, serial cables, host machines,
> serial versus ssh, lenny vs squeeze vs gentoo, replaced the
> cmos battery, etc.
>
> I thought Gentoo would be my savior, but I'm getting
> occasional Kernel Ooops and unaligned memory accesses there.
> I'd chalk it up to bad hardware, except that NetBSD appears
> to install and run flawlessly.
>
> One last try, though. When running the gentoo installer,
> I'm dropped into an ash shell with busybox. In this state, I
> should be able to manually install Debian on my hard
> drive. The problem is, I'm not experienced enough to know
> how to do this. Is there documentation somewhere that would
> walk me through such a manual install?
>
> Thanks!
>
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