Forgive me if this has already been posted, my search turned up nothing. Furthermore, this architecture is a bit foreign to me, so excuse any faux pas on my part.
I booted my SPARCStation 5 to a 3.1r0a cd and followed a relatively basic install without incident. The install finished and I rebooted back to the machine's boot prompt. Following the command "boot disk1:1", debian kicked to life and everything appeared to go to plan. The last line visible on the screen during boot was what appeared to be an insmod of the sunlance driver, and the boot froze. It sat there for a good 5 minutes before I decided that nothing was going to happen and cycled the power on the machine. Upon reboot, POST went as normal, screen kicked on etc. As the hard drives started to spin up, the screen returned to standby mode and since that time hasn't shown a thing. I've tried moving the display adapter to a different slot, without avail. Just to see what would happen I tried forcing a POST failure by removing all the ram, the hard drives, and cdrom etc, but no luck. As far as I can tell nothing is booting in the background as I can't hear any significant disk activity. Unfortunately at this point I am at a loss, without any working knowledge of what steps to take next. The service manual from Sun is about as useful as a slap in the face with a wet sock, offering only "check the cables" type advice. The specs of the machine (that I know) are listed below. Any help or advice would be much appreciated, and I apologise if this list is the wrong place to post this kind of query. 110Mhz RISC CPU 128MB RAM 2x 2GB IBM hard disks Quad ethernet card TurboGX video card --- Adrian
