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I saw that I am not the unique human trying install Debian on this SPARC machines. After a battle with them, my friends, I can tell you: the netinst distros haven't all the necessary files, drivers and scripts for a proper installation. You MUST download the complete ISO (at least the first disc). The bad thing here.. is ... although I made all the things according to all Sun manuals to do a boot from Harddisk after installation, I couldn't achieve. If my Sun Server reboots, I have to connect to it through console and write boot disk, or boot disk0 or whatever of the alias I configured.. but none of them works =( If someone of you can help me with this... thanx in advance.......... Fer R Fer R wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I've solved this trouble doing a COLD REBOOT. > > It is very simple: > > Turn off your server, and disconnect the power supply cable. Wait about > twice minutes and then turn on the server. Before do poweroff, I recommend > change the default load to CDROM device in order to avoid boot from > Harddisk device. > From the ok prompt: > ok setenv boot-device cdrom > > and then, > ok reset-all > > When the server has loaded, in the ok prompt: > boot cdrom > > When you do not need anymore boot from cdrom, reboot the server and in the > ok prompt: > ok boot disk0:a > ok reset-all > > > Good luck.. > F R > > > > Joost van Baal-138 wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This might be the same bug as #509202. >> >> I'll try to setup cu or minicom to collect kernel messages on tuesday, >> while I am at the university again. >> >> FWIW, the boot fails in the same way with >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso >> , built on 20081104-23:58 : >> >> Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel >> Loaded kernel version 2.6.26 >> Loading initial ramdisk (4284688 bytes at .... >> Memory Address not Aligned >> >> I'll try to get it to boot with the latest etch kernel on tuesday. >> >> Thanks, Bye, >> >> Joost >> >> -- >> Joost van Baal http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/ >> Tilburg University >> mailto:joostvb.uvt.nl The Netherlands >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bug-509178%3A-installation-reports%3A-sparc-fails-to-boot-2.6.26%3A-Memory-Address-not-Aligned-tp21088794p24943850.html Sent from the Debian Boot mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
