As Vince asked, I just forward this message to the lists.
Maybe next time he'll just send it himself :-)
Friendly,
Wiktor Wandachowicz
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:28:01 +1000 (EST)
From: Vincent McIntyre <Vince.McIntyre@atnf.csiro.au>
To: Wiktor Wandachowicz <wiktorw@ics.p.lodz.pl>
Cc: jurij@wooyd.org
Subject: Re: Status of Debian on Sun Blade 150
Hi Wiktor, Juirij
Andreas has made some progress! See logs attached.
I could not make a full install, as the box is still needs to run solaris.
Please could you forward this report to -sparc and maybe -boot.
I'm not subscribed to either, I simply can't afford the distraction at the
moment.
Cheers
Vince
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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
netinst from http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/iso.img
MD5 sum: 03f1445c82c80e51254b55616eb99479
'file' output:
Sun disk label 'CD-ROM Disc with Sun sparc boot created by mkisofs' 768
alts/cyl, 768 data cyls, -2135424256 blocks, boot block present
uname -a: 2.4.27
Date: 2005 04 24
Method: see comments section
Machine: Sun SunBlade 100
Processor: Ultrasparc-IIe (ie sun4u, or "sparc64" arch)
Memory: 384Mb
Root Device: ide
Root Size/partition table:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E/O] (see below)
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The command sequence was:
solaris# halt
ok setenv auto-boot? false
ok reset-all
[reboots]
ok boot cdrom
SILO 1.4.9
boot: <ret>
starts booting, panics when trying to mount root fs & locks up solid.
[power down]
count to ten..
[power up]
ok boot cdrom
SILO 1.4.9
boot: <ret>
[installer comes up with "choose language" screen]
Choose Language: English
Country: Australia
Choose keyboard layout: <Go Back>
(it offered a bunch of sun type5 mappings)
Main menu: Choose keyboard layout
Choose keyboard type: USB
Choose keyboard layout: American English
[red screen - select keyboard layout failed]
(choose_keymap selects mac-usb-us, even though the keyboard was
detected as a NON-apple keyboard. Tsk.
It looks like the process (#459) calling kbd-chooser (process #461)
segfaults. The logs say kbd-chooser failed with error code 139.
)
Main menu: Choose keyboard layout
Choose keyboard type: None
Main Menu: detect and mount cdrom
[ displays a ton of modules, all turned on ]
<Continue>
[ installer detects cdrom and loads the installer components ]
Main Menu: configure network
[ installer tries to configure with dhcp, this fails ]
<configure network manually>
Partition Hard disk: <exit>
PS:
Using netcat to transfer installation logs from 'a' to 'b'
The port number is arbitrary, but do check it isn't used first.
b% script var-log-messages
Script started on Sun Apr 24 16:52:30 2005
b% nc -l -p 10002 a
On a, where the installer is running, get into the console (<c><a><f2>)
# nc -p 10002 b < /var/log/messages
On b,
b% exit
Script done on Sun Apr 24 16:54:30 2005
(for dmesg output: # dmesg 2>&1 | nc -p 10002 b )Attachment:
sb100-andreas.tar.gz
Description: Binary data