RE: sarge on Sunfire V240
I've managed to kind of get Testing working on my V240 using the beta
netinst image located here:
After completing a full install I encountered a hang on boot - just
after the infamous 'Switching root ...' message, but there were a couple
of messages below it about ext3.
I booted the netinst CD again and selected rescue mode. I dropped out
to the ash shell and did the following:
1. Mount all filesystems:
# mkdir /mnt
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/usr
# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/var
2. Chroot into /mnt
# chroot /mnt /bin/bash
3. Mount /proc and /sys (which are in /etc/fstab already)
# mount /proc
# mount /sys
4. Connect your Ethernet cable and determine the name of the interface
(note that for me the interface enumeration got all mixed up and what
had been eth0 at install time was now eth4)
5. Use mii-tool to tell you which interface(s) have have a link
# mii-tool
6. Bring up the connected Ethernet interface(s)
# ifconfig eth4 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.64
# route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254
7. Confirm name resolution is working and that your /etc/resolv.conf
has the correct nameserver(s)
# nslookup www.google.com
8. Now you should be able to apt-get update && apt-get upgrade etc
I suspect that the kernel hangs we're seeing are occurring when the
kernel hands over to init to continue the boot process. Does anyone
know how I might be able to troubleshoot?
Cheers
Ashley
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Hooper [mailto:Ashley.Hooper@FFastFill.com]
> Sent: 23 March 2006 15:27
> To: Robin Stevens; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: sarge on Sunfire V240
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robin Stevens [mailto:robin.stevens@oucs.ox.ac.uk]
> >
> > I've been attempting to do a sarge install on a Sunfire V240 system
> > (single CPU, 1GB RAM).
>
> [Ashley Hooper]
> I am also waiting on a workaround to get any version of Debian onto
the
> Sparc (preferably Testing)
>
>
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