Re: Debian on ultra 1 (was: Re: Debian on qemu-system-sparc64)
Hi Romain,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:56:08PM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> 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.
You might want to try to stick a 2nd video card in, and see if that
gets you any output. But a serial console would be better...
HTH, Bye,
Joost
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