Re: Cobalt Qube2 Installation Problem: UNIT BOOT FAILED
Ooops, hit reply too soon there.
Was just going to say it'll be interesting to hear how you get on. I've had no luck with any of the more recent kernels on the qube2, recent attempts have been pretty unstable. I've two machines that have both been running netbsd flawlessly for 4 years, so am sticking with it for now.
--- On Fri, 20/8/10, Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Cobalt Qube2 Installation Problem: UNIT BOOT FAILED
> To: debian-mips@lists.debian.org, "Ted Krovetz" <tdk@acm.org>
> Date: Friday, 20 August, 2010, 9:06
>
>
> --- 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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