Hi,
Brandon Mercer wrote:
Ok, I was able to get the 3.0rc2 iso to install on my V100.
Can you specify exactly were you've downloaded this image from? RC2 is the
currently "released" version of the debian-installer for sarge, while 3.0
is the woody version (sarge is 3.1), so I am a bit confused.
[skip]
No... but does this flag affect how the machine will behave after the first
reboot when it starts setting up the Timezones and stuff... let me know cause
this could be it. Thanks
Brandon
This flag (ide=nodma) turns off the direct memory access for IDE, which
can drop the disk performance quite dramatically. Unfortunately, it seems
like V100 is using the infamous CMD64x IDE chipset, which is known to be
buggy as hell :-(. The options which I would recommend trying are the 2.6
kernel, which seems to handle this chipset somewhat better. You can boot
d-i with 2.6 kernel by using a 2.6 RC2 netboot image from [0]. If you'll
manage to complete an install, it would be valuable if you could make the
installer logs (stored in /var/log/debian-installer on the newly installed
system) available somewhere, and fill out an installation report (see
[1] for instructions).
[0]
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-sparc/rc2/images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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