Attempting to install Debian Sarge on a Sun Blade 150 which has a current working Solaris 9 on it. Boot from CD works - SILO prompt comes up, select linux
Machine boots with install kernel - little Tux comes in at top of screen - machine appears to work normally, initialises ramdisk and then dies with message similar to "can't find root" followed by "Press L1-A to continue" - at which point the machine is wedged and non-responsive to keyboard, needing a hard power-off reset. Googling showed similar problems with debian-installer on Sparc 64 last year but nothing obvious. Machine not at home, so can't check exact wording: HELP - am getting laughed at by Solaris admins and being told that Linux sucks :) I imagine that an argument passed to SILO after linux to indicate where the ramdisk / initrd are is what's needed but I don't know the precise specifics. Last time I did this was a Sarge install but on a Sparc20 with known SMP problems kernel problems - I now have a whole different hardware platform to troubleshoot :) I have read and printed the HOWTO mentioned recently in DWN by ?? Nishin Sharma ?? and downloaded the image he suggests - but I'd rather not have to go to set up TFTP and other hassles. Andy [Only just subscribed to list again - in this instance, replies to me personally would also be appreciated] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
