Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CDImage version: <Full URL to
image you downloaded is best>
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.7/sparc/iso-cd/debian-507-sparc-CD-1.isoDate:
<Date and time of the install> 2011-01-09
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> Sun Sparc Ultra 10
Processor: Ultra SPARC IIi 333 MHZ
Memory: 1GB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> ? didn't go
that far
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): didn't go that far
Base System Installation Checklist: E
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
start to boot and prints lots of messages on screen, but then stopsthe last
messages are[0.000000] Booting Linux...[0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone
order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130071[0.000000] Kernel command
line:[0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)[0.000000]
clocksource: mult[300c5] shift[16][0.000000] clockevent: mult[553f7ced]
shift[32][42.966816] Console: colour dummy device 80x25[43.020133] console
handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0]after this nothing seems to happen I
have previously been running Sarge and FreeBSD 8.1 so the hardware should be
fine.rescue mode has the same problem, expert mode has the same problem The
following image has a similar problem, the error message is a bit different,
but stops when doing something with the
consolehttp://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.7/sparc/iso-cd/debian-507-sparc-businesscard.isolast
line is: [0.000000] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled