Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've recently been given a blade 1000 and have been trying to get debian > installed on it. It didn't like the cd's I made so I'm having to do a > tftpboot process, which isn't all that bad. > > If I try to use the boot.img from: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/current//images/sparc64/netboot/ > > I can get through the prompts for selecting locale and it does a dhcp > config. Then when it asks for a hostname the keyboard is completely > unuseable. I can only guess it didn't actually map to the correct locale. > > So I tried the 2.6 boot.img, and can get all the way through installation > with the only problem being manually telling it to use the qlogicfc module > instead of qlogicisp. It says it needs to reboot, and does so. > > The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just > stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead > in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long > while in case it was just chugging through all that memory. I don't know > what to do. > > I don't know exactly what the processors are, outside of 2 ultrasparc > III's. Openboot is v4.0, and there's 8gigs of memory installed. > > Anyone know what I can do?
You will find that running a 2.6 kernel is _a lot_ of hassle! There's something with the machine/kernel that makes everything work very irradic. I know, my primary server is a SB1k and I've had a lot of strange kernel hangs, krashes etc.. Kernel 2.4 actually worked better, although a lot slower. I finally have a kernel that seems to work. You can find the deb package for the kernel at the URL: ftp://ftp.bayour.com/pub/debian/dists/woody-ol2.2/binary-sparc/Kernel/kernel-image-2.6.12-rc3-sparc64_10.20_sparc.deb The TFTP boot image I was using when I installed this machine roughly a year ago came from 'phunnypharm.org' (image is made by Ben Collins if I'm not misstaken). You can find that image (as soon as my web directories have finished syncing, in a few minutes) at the URL: http://www.bayour.com/Blade1000/tftpboot_phunnypharm.img Note that this is a woody system, so if you want/need sarge, you'll have to do a dist-upgrade when it's finished installing... -- FSF Ortega Serbian congress DES security Iran 767 $400 million in gold bullion PLO supercomputer [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] Cuba Waco, Texas 747 [See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
