jurij, it worked now i get the terminal on ttys0 thank u so much 2011/5/8 Eduardo Cruz <[email protected]>
> I'll try that, thanks. > But one thing I noticed is that when I try to ping/ssh the machine by its > hostname, I get no response. > I don't know which ip it got to try to ping directly by the ip, but as I > said, through the hostname doesn't work. > > 2011/5/8 Jurij Smakov <[email protected]> > >> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 04:22:31PM -0300, Eduardo Cruz wrote: >> > Hello, I am trying to get the most recently debian testing release to >> work >> > in a Sun T5220 server. >> > The processor is a niagara t2. >> > Ubuntu doesn't even boot the kernel of the install CD. I get an illegal >> > instruction error. >> > However, Debian-testing installs fine. >> > After installation, it boots successfully from hardisk, I hit ENTER in >> silo >> > menu, and it loads debian. >> > But at the end of the boot, after loading the ssh server and mta, the >> system >> > suddenly freezes, without any error messages. It doesn't even show the >> login >> > terminal. >> > Do you have any ideias of what is happening? >> >> Yes, probably what's happening is that it does not put a tty on a >> serial console [0]. The fix is in the works, but it's a bit involved. >> In the meantime you can work around the problem by manually modifying >> /etc/inittab (or /target/etc/inittab, if you choose to do it from the >> installer shell). You should uncomment the following (or similar) >> lines, to get a login prompt on the serial console: >> >> #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 >> #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 >> >> [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2011/03/msg00058.html >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Jurij Smakov [email protected] >> Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC >> > > > > -- > Eduardo Henrique Molina da Cruz > MSc student > Parallel and Distributed Processing Group > Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) > > -- Eduardo Henrique Molina da Cruz MSc student Parallel and Distributed Processing Group Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

