Re: Problem with a SunFire V120 -- Kernel panics when trying to install
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't think that either yours or Yan's ctrace
> contains any useful information. I was hoping for a more complete
> ctrace, which would allow us to trace it into the kernel, but no such
> luck. I'm pretty sure that any kernel crash like that should log
> information about the location of the crash, but I'm not sure whether
> there is a way to display it. Perhaps, if you can start an installer
> shell, it is possible to modify syslog setting to increase verbosity,
> but I don't have more specific instructions.
A pity; I've been only able to get past the initial locale screen once
by luck. I have a second v120 and repeated the experiment with almost
exactly the same results down to the registers (2nd machine has 1gig
of RAM compared to 2gig for the first). Perhaps halting the installer
with a break might get around this?
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