Hello, a few weeks back I reported issues with a SunBlade 2000 that shows illegal instructions right after SILO. After some frustrating evenings, the machine was passed to our neighbouring institute's sys admins. They had installed Solaris on a sister machine of ours and promised us a Linux Zone that in theory allows installing Debian. What then happened is still mystery to us. The frustration of ours followed the frustration of the sys admins since apparently our Debianisation attempt had modified the firmware (of the Sun itself or the qla disk driver) in a way that it cannot be installed with Solaris any longer. The drive was plugged to another slot, just because you try many things when desparate, and geez, what worked then was not Solaris but Debian bootet up - first into SILO and then into the kernel, just the way it should have worked from minute 1. We had to add some sleep(15) to the initrd to give the drive and its partitions some more time to be found. The machine now boots nicely. Very special thanks go to Daniel, Andreas and Helge and for all your constructive feedback on my original posting. Btw, if there is need for it then I could possibly help out as a buildd. Cheers, Steffen
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