Re: Success installing on a Sun Fire 280R was Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

["Brian Milco" <bcmilco@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

  I've been trying to get a SunFire 280R working with linux and I was 
wondering if you used another video card or console. When you finally did 
get linux to install. If you used another vid card which one did you use?

I've tried 3 standard PCI vid cards and via the console with no luck.

Thanks,
 ~Brian C. Milco

> I had a chance to install in another 280R here at CPqD.
> Although the configuration was almost the same, I decide
> to try to see if the error would be exactly the same.
> But, for my surprise, I had no error! So I got the disk
> back on my own machine and saw the same error.
> I started checking all components to find any difference
> between the two system. They have the same processors
> (2x UltraSparcIII 750 MHz), the same onboard FC-AL SCSI
> controller (Qlogic ISP2200A), the same QuadFastEthernet
> but different graphics boards. So I tried to install on
> my own 280R without the graphics board and everything
> worked flawlessly. Conclusion the problem was with the
> PGX64 graphics board. I can't understand why though.
> Maybe you can have an idea about what caused the error.
> Anyway this story can be useful to others.


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