Hi Rick,
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 03:06 -0400, Rick Leir wrote:
Hi all,
I am just trying out Adrian's latest iso (thanks Adrian!!).
(On a SunBlade 2000 (circa 2002) with two Cu processors and 1800M
RAM, booting from the CDROM): I tapped on the 'choose language,
choose keyboard, choose..' screen a bit and it jumped ahead without
me being finished there. OK, now I understand: the fourth item is
'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have chosen that.
Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
ql2200_fw.bin, and that I should load it from removable media. Does
this firmware matter, and where can I get it? There is something by
that name on the qlogic.com site. I guess it could be for the
FibreChannel interface. OK, ignoring it for now.
After doing 'set up users and passwords' correctly it goes on to
'Configure the clock'. It returns from that immediately without
doing anything. I was hoping to set the timezone.
Now it is doing 'Detecting disks'. Gee, it took a long time on that,
maybe a few minutes. Then it says 'No disk drive was detected' and
gives me a list of drivers to select from. I am guessing now: qla2xxx
... long pause, then I am back to the list of drivers screen. Try
'qla1280' ... 'qla4xxx' .. help! I think the disk hardware is OK
because OpenBSD is installed and can boot. What can I use for a disk
driver? How could I load the ql2200_fw.bin?
I have done some SunBlade 2000 installs. If i am well the Debian
installer ask for the firmware while installing.
What I did just copy the firmware to a USB stick. It automatily detects
the bin and I was able to detect the disks.
But just after that, on early version my kernel crashes several times,
because it's not handling the FibreChannel controller well. Did report
this issue upstream a year ago, so maybe its solved now.
I downloaded this firmware-qlogic package. Extracted it manually and
copied my bin to the root of the USB stick. If in your case the
installer does not ask for the firmware, you can manually copy it to
/lib/firmware of the installer. With ctrl + f2 you will get a prompt.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-qlogic
Thanks,
Frans van Berckel