Re: problem installing squeeze 6.0.4 on SunBlade 150 -- stalls (?)

[Patrick Baggett <baggett.patrick@gmail.com>]

I'm not very qualified to respond, but it looks like you've got a Raptor gfx card in there, and I don't think it is supported by Linux right now. The on-board ATI Mach64 card does work under Linux. Could you try removing it and seeing if you can do the install with just the on-board graphics? That would at least help us find out if the problem is related to that card.

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If you're looking for a secondary monitor head, then I'd suggest using a cheap x86 card, since Linux can actually enable those cards even if they have x86 VGA BIOSes (i.e. would never work in the OBP or Solaris). I actually am using that onboard card + GeForce 4000MX (old x86 card) successfully in a Sun Ultra 10. The GeForce 4000MX even gets hardware accelerated 3D, albeit a bit buggy at the moment. I imagine r200-based (Radeon 7000) cards would work even better. On the other hard, a Sun XVR-1200 has serious graphical issues that make it pretty much unusable on Linux for anything Xorg. 

Patrick

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote:

Dear Sparc-ers,

to troubleshoot FTBFS from time to time (and provide access to it to
upstream developers) I decided to reincarnate this box which was sitting
under the table for a while (got it from our sysadmin long time ago)

But upon attempt to boot from sparc netinst CD for 6.0.4 -- it just gets
stuck somewhere around "ide-cd driver 5.00" line, if I try BOOT_DEBUG=4
it falls into the busybox hsell but I guess too early so I can't even
exist since USB keyboard isn't yet active

Please find snapshots of the screen(s) at different stages of the boot
process:

http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150744.jpg
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150816.jpg
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150901.jpg

if I get into openboot via pressing power twice upon beep -- I get only
secondary display on,  if via stop-a -- both seems to be present:

http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150958.jpg
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_151049.jpg
http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_151058.jpg

how could I troubleshoot what prevents it from booting normally into the
installer?

Thank you in advance
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