Jurij Smakov wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote:
install debian. I hit enter and see some messages about:
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.4.27
Loadeing initial ramdisk (896142 bytes at 0xCF808000 phys, 0x40C00000
virt)...
Remapping the kernl... FP Disabled
Can anyone offer any advice on a working installer to use. I don't
have a floppy drive on the box, and I have exhausted all of my
knowledge. Thanks
Brandon
Hi Brandon,
Sorry to hear about all the failures. The problem you've encountered
is documented in the Debian BTS as bug #267428 [0]. It has been open
for a while, but recently there has been some progress [1]. It looks
like the system hangs (or returns to OBP prompt) because gcc generates
code using the floating-point registers for temporary storage early in
the boot process, which causes the "FP Disabled" trap. So the solution
might be as simple as finding the right set of gcc options for
kernel/silo compilation. I hope we will be able to resolve it soon.
In the meantime I can only recommend you to try and netboot the image
[2] with 2.6 kernel (we currently do not have any prebuilt iso images
with 2.6). As this is different kernel version, it might "just work".
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/267428
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110469050900003&r=1&w=2
[2]
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/rc2/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img
Thanks for getting back to me. I guess I just never found the bug
tracker system. :-P Anyhow, I'll try the alternatives and see if it
helps. If you would like help testing or anything like that let me know
as I will have about 20 sun servers all running debian at my disposal
once I get this working. Currently I'm building a web application and
server environment so the sooner the better. Thanks again,
Brandon
