Hello all, Trying to install Sid sparc64 on a T5120. I have a cdrom with the 2018-05-18 ISO from <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/sparc64/iso-cd/>.
I'm installing on the third hard drive (first two are a mirrored ZFS pool for Solaris). It worked just fine installing to the whole disk in a big partition (ZFS support is missing, I presume it's a known issue, so I let the installer pick a partition scheme and figured I'd try ZFS root in the fourth disk at a later date). I picked sdc as the target for grub when asked (sda & sdb are Solaris, didn't want to mess with them). However, the system wouldn't boot on the fresh install - PROM said 'not bootable'. So I booted in rescue mode and loaded a shell in /dev/sdc2, then tried installing grub by hand with: grub-install --force --skip-fs-probe /dev/sdc1 (as suggested in <https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki>). Now grub loads fine, I see the grub menu, pick the default choice, and this happen: ##### Loading Linux 4.16.0-1-sparc64-smp ... Segmentation fault /dev/sdc2: clean, 38180/6938624 files, 827057/27744254 blocks Segmentation fault [ 32.916580] run-init[1]: segfault at 38 ip 00000000800106cc (rpc 0000000000100500) sp 000007feffb02eb1 error 1 in klibc-gioU2Ql6Bpp06841ZXKfdH4dunE.so[80000000+14000] [ 32.917090] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b [ 32.917090] [ 32.917242] CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: run-init Not tainted 4.16.0-1-sparc64-smp #1 Debian 4.16.5-1 [ 32.917365] Call Trace: [ 32.917443] [000000000046b8a8] panic+0xe8/0x2a0 [ 32.917520] [0000000000471010] do_exit+0xb50/0xb60 [ 32.917594] [00000000004710cc] do_group_exit+0x2c/0xe0 [ 32.917651] [000000000047d194] get_signal+0x3b4/0x660 [ 32.917710] [000000000042dbbc] do_signal+0x3c/0x480 [ 32.917831] [000000000042e850] do_notify_resume+0x50/0xa0 [ 32.918110] [0000000000404b44] __handle_signal+0xc/0x2c [ 32.919181] Press Stop-A (L1-A) from sun keyboard or send break [ 32.919181] twice on console to return to the boot prom [ 32.919398] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b [ 32.919398] ##### I probably messed up somewhere, just can't figure out where... any help appreciated. Already tried upgrading, but no newer kernel is available. Related question - Solaris installs fine from a USB stick on this beast, is there already support for an USB installer in Debian Sparc64? (I've run out of blank media - don't use them that much anymore...). Thanks in advance & cordially, -- Romain Dolbeau
