Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Hi, > > according to google several failures to install Debian on a SunFire v880 > were reported on the list. I've given this problem another try and > figured out that > > - 2.6.18 crashed the machine pretty bad (red flag cpu exception..., I > still need to get the log from my notebook and report it) > - 2.6.21 got a kernel panic - #440720 > > So I've rebuilt the Etch installer (the latest one from svn ended up > with some conflicts in retrieving the apckages, seems there's a new > libc6 coming in...) with 2.6.23-rc4-smp, which booted well, but > unfortunately the installer makes a mess out of the serial console: > http://www.picpaste.de/pics/SUN-wtf.1189168846.png
okay, Ifound the reason for this problem: interestingly input/output-device was set to rsc, but the console was never on the rsc, but on ttya instead. Weird. Now the problem hidden behind the messy console appears: console [ttyS0] enabled f00d0fb4: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x7fc7e400040 (irq = 21) is a SAB82532 V3.2 f00d0fb4: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x7fc7e400040 (irq = 21) is a SAB82532 V3.2 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize loop: module loaded Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver TCP bic registered/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Warning: unable to open an initial console.nly. Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prominit! Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom Any ideas are welcome :) -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
