This report can be closed! The installer now supports this hardware. The only trick to installation is to power cycle immediately before booting off the cdrom. Full report below.
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: netinst 20041015, from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/20041015/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux grus1 2.4.27-1-sparc64 #1 Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-11-06 Method: How did you install? from netinst cd What did you boot off? netinst cd, If network install, from where? Proxied? Machine: Sun Ultra 10, OpenBoot 3.11 Processor: Ultra Sparc IIi 300 MHz Memory: Socket 1: 128 Socket 2: 128 Socket 3: 64 Socket 4: 64 total - 384Mb Root Device: /dev/hda (IDE disk) Root Size/partition table: Initially had a sun partition table, which I blew away. Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8894 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0 207 97807+ 1 Boot /dev/hda2 207 635 202230 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 0 8894 4202415 5 Whole disk /dev/hda4 635 3810 1500187+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda5 3810 5168 641655 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 5168 6755 749857+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 6755 7284 249952+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda8 7284 8894 760725 83 Linux native Output of lspci and lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 0600: 108e:a000 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIi 0000:00:01.0 0604: 108e:5000 (rev 11) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Brid ge (rev 11) 0000:00:01.1 0604: 108e:5000 (rev 11) 0000:00:01.1 PCI bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Simba Advanced PCI Brid ge (rev 11) 0000:01:01.0 0680: 108e:1000 (rev 01) 0000:01:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS (rev 01) 0000:01:01.1 0200: 108e:1001 (rev 01) 0000:01:01.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal (re v 01) 0000:01:02.0 0300: 1002:4754 (rev 9a) 0000:01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a) 0000:01:03.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 03) 0000:01:03.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PC I0646 (rev 03) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E] see discussion Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: The system was running Solaris (2.6) before installation. Shut system down with # halt In OpenBoot, ok boot cdrom at SILO prompt boot: <return> the boot started ok, then failed with: kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom so I pressed the magic combo and got back to the boot prom. <L1>-A ok boot cdrom at SILO prompt boot: <return> failed in the same way Inserted joshk disk (20041015), same failure. Power down. Power up. <L1>-A during "Initializing memory" ok boot cdrom (joshk disk still) Initializing Memory \ SILO 1.4.8 boot: <ret> NOW it works. Power down. Power up. Load d-i netinst 20041015. <L1>-A during "Initializing memory" ok boot cdrom SILO 1.4.8 boot: <ret> Installation proceeded as normal from this point. Moral of the story: power cycle before trying to install sparcs. During partitioning I tried auto-partitioning. This made [swap] and /tmp a bit small for my liking (236M, not 2x memory, 768M) but otherwise did ok. Nice work team! Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
