Mandi! Ben Collins In chel di` si favelave... > > After this... box stop working at all, only a blue screen, no keyboard, > > no even Stop-A. Simply DEAD. > What was the installation doing when you got this last screen?
I can do most of the instalation, as explained before: boot, keyboard conf, partitioning, formatting, network conf, download of kernel and modules, install of kernel and modules... then i go to the module config phase. All the things i need (console, disks, network) just works (i've used it!) so i simply hit enter (``finished with modules, continue with the next step''). As i expect the window desappear (remain only the blue background typical of a debian install), but no next phase appear (i think will be the download of the base system). Only the blue background. No Alt-F2 to go to the shell. No even Stop-A. Seems that after the modules config, something try to access an hw portion not previously accessed before, and thus hang all the box. A note. When i've to download the kernel and modules image, from the media choice menu there's no cdrom. Could be that the installer try to load something from the cd and hang? I can try to skip cdrom probe with something like ide1=off on netboot prompt? Next time i'll try to use a serial console, or verify if also network hang with some pings (but if there's no stop-A response, i think also network go dead). sparc kernels support the magic sysreq keys? I can try also this? -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Abbiamo dato il timone del paese a un imbonitore pubblicitario, a un fiscalista e a una broker; il loro sapere è importante in società votate ai consumi e al profitto. Devo appena ricordare che il mondo dei saperi di base e applicati è immensamente più vasto. Di questo immenso mondo intellettuale costoro sono ignari come pargoli. (Tullio de Mauro) http://www.nonunodimeno.it/
