On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 11:57 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi all, > > I would be appreciated if someone could give me some help: > > There is an installation report (please refer to > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402282 > for detailed info) on a Sun Blade 100 machine. > > This machine doesn't boot with recent daily builds of the > debian-installer (2.6.17 or 2.6.18 kernels). Boot up hangs > at "Booting linux ..".
i have issues with .17 on 'blade 150's > > Frans Pop suggested to try with boot argument > "video=atyfb:off", but the bugreport submitter wrote me, > that he is unable to give additional boot parameters, because > he don't know where the cursor actually is and there are messed > up characters on the screen. i didnt get anyware when i tried that parameter, but i dindnt get a garbled screen. > (I am partly unsure about what he's talking, he is not very > precise with his comments and his english is a problem as well, > I think. As I don't own a sparc machine, I cannot try this out.) > > > This machine contains Openfirmware, correct? yes. 2.x > > Are there problems known ahout this (messed up display etc.)? > > Can someone give me instructions how to add additional boot > parameters to that machine? Are there any special things to > note? > i will pick up my sunblade 100 shell when i get home tomorrow (i stripped it for parts to build two 150's). that means in about 24 hours i can start providing testing if you need. (hm... i might need to get dayly isos as well, not the 1.5 month old one i'm using now). kk Karl > Thanks a lot > > Holger i sent an email a few days ago to this list, dont remember if it came through though. it meantions some of the issues i had iirc. kk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
