Hi. I tried to install lenny on my E250 via network. A second computer is connectet via ttyS0 / minicom. The system connects to the server via ARP/RARP, loads the boot-image and begins to start. The kernel messages do appear on the console until the network is detected. The last messages I can see are:
--snip -- 129 [ 185.567784] Console: ttyS0 (SAB82532) 130 [ 185.568181] console [ttyS0] enabled 131 [ 192.231821] f006b400: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1fff1400040 (irq = 7) is a SAB82532 V3.2 132 [ 192.336276] f006b4d8: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1fff1200000 (irq = 8) is a SAB82532 V3.2 133 [ 192.441022] f006b4d8: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x1fff1200040 (irq = 8) is a SAB82532 V3.2 134 [ 192.558012] brd: module loaded 135 [ 192.618022] loop: module loaded 136 [ 192.673221] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver 137 [ 192.745196] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx 138 [ 192.861859] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice 139 [ 193.945207] input: Sun Mouse as /class/input/input0 140 [ 194.021477] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid 141 [ 194.106084] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver 142 [ 194.179058] TCP cubic registered 143 [ 194.235834] NET: Registered protocol family 17 144 [ 194.307868] registered taskstats version 1 145 [ 194.374882] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) 146 [ 195.488341] sunhme.c:v3.00 June 23, 2006 David S. Miller ([email protected]) 147 [ 195.596160] eth0: HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:9f:3c:02 -- snap -- Then the system freezes. Same procedure with the boot-image from etch works fine. When I use the image from http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img (2008-12-26 12:17) the system boots fine via network. But... The only languages I can choose in the menu are C and English. Hope this helps debugging. Armin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

