Re: problem installing squeeze 6.0.4 on SunBlade 150 -- stalls (?)
Thank you Patrick -- that was a good call and made me finally do that --
take it out. Unfortunately results are identical.
I also ran into a success report (CCing Christoph -- do you remember
details? ;) )
http://identi.ca/christophegger
turns out serial console + atyfb:off together let me install !debian
#squeeze on sunBlade 150 #sparc
so I have also tried with video=atyfb:off and console=ttyS0,115200
kernel params to get connection via serial (had usb dongle on another
side, it even blinked on 'receive' end when box was just starting but
then nothing appeared in the console)
> 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.
> ---�
> 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
> <[1]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:
> [2]http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150744.jpg
> [3]http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150816.jpg
> [4]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:
> [5]http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150958.jpg
> [6]http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_151049.jpg
> [7]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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