On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:09:31AM -0700, Geoff Messier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0r1 on my shiny new Sunblade 150. However, > after > the SILO prompt, I get the following messages: > > Loading initial ramdisk... > Remapping the kernel... done. > Booting Linux... > > and then the machine hangs. I've tried the ide=nodma kernel command option > and > specifying the /boot/sparc64 kernel at the SILO prompt but the same thing > happens. > > Based on a bootlog I found on the debian web server, the next message I should > be seeing in my boot sequence has something to do with the Sun IEEE boot > prom. > I'm wondering if my machine has a really new boot prom version that isn't > supported by the current kernel yet. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Do "linux -p" at the SILO boot: prompt. The -p will give you an early boot log to the OBP. Maybe it will give us a hint at what is going wrong. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
