Hi Georg, I'm quoting Karl's reply below, since you weren't in copy of his mail. Hopefully that might help you out:
Karl Volz <karl.v...@oracle.com> (2013-10-04):
> Georg,
>
> Here is a possible work around to your issue....
> I was able to get a SPARC Ultra45 to install Debian wheezy from a
> netinstall
> CDROM (debian-7.1.0-sparc-netinst.iso 2013-06-16 06:57) via
> a serial tty console and also using a netinstall via the GUI console.
>
> The key here is, I was seeing the same problem you were and
> dug into it. Turns out the video card (standard XVR-100 S01 (ATI radeon))
> is broken under Debian wheezy (it was also somewhat broken under Debian
> squeeze, but worked enough to not be an issue). To get this to work
> you will
> need to remove the video card and use the serial port as a console.
> I also tried a few other cards which did not work ...
> the one that was somewhat usable was the ATI FireGL V3100
> which was fine during the install... but useless after the system came up
> (the fonts are something undecipherable, but that is another issue to track
> down).
>
> The easy route...
>
> - install using the serial port console to another machine
> you will have to change the OBP settings ...
> Note: change autoboot or you can't get back from SILO
> to OBP easily....
>
> // This is from debian squeeze
> # eeprom output-device=ttya
> # eeprom input-device=ttya
> # eeprom auto-boot?=false
>
> // OR from OBP
> setenv output-device tty
> setenv input-device tty
> setenv auto-boot? false
>
> Then just boot from the netinstall disk...
>
> {1} ok boot cdrom
>
>
> The machine is a standard SUN Ultra45
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu : TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno)
> fpu : UltraSparc IIIi integrated FPU
> pmu : ultra3i
> prom : OBP 4.21.6 2006/03/31 15:02
> type : sun4u
> ncpus probed : 2
> ncpus active : 2
> D$ parity tl1 : 0
> I$ parity tl1 : 0
> cpucaps :
> flush,stbar,swap,muldiv,v9,ultra3,mul32,div32,v8plus,vis,vis2
> Cpu0ClkTck : 000000005f5e1000
> Cpu1ClkTck : 000000005f5e1000
> MMU Type : Cheetah+
> State:
> CPU0: online
> CPU1: online
>
>
> # uname -a
> Linux xxxspit 3.2.0-4-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1
> sparc64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> hot# lspci -knn
> 0000:02:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532
> Versatile PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
> 0000:03:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532
> Versatile PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
> 0000:03:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532
> Versatile PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
> 0000:03:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532
> Versatile PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
> 0000:03:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532
> Versatile PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
> 0000:03:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX 8532
> Versatile PCI Express Switch [10b5:8532] (rev aa)
> 0000:04:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ULi Electronics Inc. M5249 HTT to
> PCI Bridge [10b9:5249]
> 0000:05:1c.0 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1
> Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
> Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
> Motherboard [10b9:5237]
> Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
> 0000:05:1c.1 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1
> Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
> Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
> Motherboard [10b9:5237]
> Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
> 0000:05:1c.2 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 1.1
> Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
> Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
> Motherboard [10b9:5237]
> Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
> 0000:05:1c.3 USB controller [0c03]: ULi Electronics Inc. USB 2.0
> Controller [10b9:5239] (rev 01)
> Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. Device [10b9:5238]
> Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
> 0000:05:1d.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ULi Electronics
> Inc. M5455 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device [10b9:5455] (rev 21)
> Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
> Motherboard [10b9:5455]
> 0000:05:1e.1 Bridge [0680]: ULi Electronics Inc. M7101 Power
> Management Controller [PMU] [10b9:7101]
> 0000:05:1f.0 IDE interface [0101]: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE
> [10b9:5229] (rev c8)
> Subsystem: ULi Electronics Inc. M5229 IDE [10b9:5229]
> Kernel driver in use: pata_ali
> 0000:06:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Broadcom EPB PCI-Express to PCI-X
> Bridge [1166:0103] (rev b3)
> 0000:07:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation
> NetXtreme BCM5715 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1678] (rev a2)
> Subsystem: Oracle/SUN Device [108e:1678]
> Kernel driver in use: tg3
> 0000:07:04.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation
> NetXtreme BCM5715 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:1678] (rev a2)
> Subsystem: Oracle/SUN Device [108e:1678]
> Kernel driver in use: tg3
> 0000:0a:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 41210 [Lanai]
> Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge (A-Segment Bridge) [8086:0340] (rev
> 09)
> 0000:0a:00.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 41210 [Lanai]
> Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge (B-Segment Bridge) [8086:0341] (rev
> 09)
> 0000:0b:01.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios
> Logic SAS1064 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS [1000:0050] (rev 02)
> Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device [1000:3020]
> Kernel driver in use: mptsas
> 0001:02:00.0 Display controller [0380]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
> nee ATI RV370 5B64 [FireGL V3100 (PCIE)] [1002:5b64] (rev 80)
> Subsystem: Device [530c:0e55]
> Kernel driver in use: radeonfb
>
>
> Cheers
> Karl
>
>
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