Debian on ultra 1 (was: Re: Debian on qemu-system-sparc64)

[Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>]

2016-01-26 0:12 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>:
> Now I need to find a cd-r to burn, to try and install on my Ultra 1E if I can find the time.

Just tried it, unfortunately so far no luck. I have the 20160802-16:21 image on a CD-R that boots SILO just fine, then load the kernel & initial ramdisk, then gets to "loading system daemons: ..."

Then the screen goes black with a blinking underline cursor at the bottom left for a short while.
Then the blinking cursor disappears.

Then - nothing. It just sits there. Doesn't sound like it's using the disk or cd.

Ultra 1/200E Creator

1 GB RAM

Creator 3D series 2 horizontal (not the original Creator series 1)

Unused TGX in the top SBus slot

SUN36G disk in the bottom slot

Plextor 32x CD-ROM set to 512 bytes/sector

... and I have no more serial port near it to try a serial console :-(

Any suggestion welcome.

Cordially,

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Romain Dolbeau