I'm not very qualified to respond, but it looks like you've got a Raptor gfx card in there, and I don't think it is supported by Linux right now. The on-board ATI Mach64 card does work under Linux. Could you try removing it and seeing if you can do the install with just the on-board graphics? That would at least help us find out if the problem is related to that card.
--- If you're looking for a secondary monitor head, then I'd suggest using a cheap x86 card, since Linux can actually enable those cards even if they have x86 VGA BIOSes (i.e. would never work in the OBP or Solaris). I actually am using that onboard card + GeForce 4000MX (old x86 card) successfully in a Sun Ultra 10. The GeForce 4000MX even gets hardware accelerated 3D, albeit a bit buggy at the moment. I imagine r200-based (Radeon 7000) cards would work even better. On the other hard, a Sun XVR-1200 has serious graphical issues that make it pretty much unusable on Linux for anything Xorg. Patrick On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko <deb...@onerussian.com>wrote: > Dear Sparc-ers, > > to troubleshoot FTBFS from time to time (and provide access to it to > upstream developers) I decided to reincarnate this box which was sitting > under the table for a while (got it from our sysadmin long time ago) > > But upon attempt to boot from sparc netinst CD for 6.0.4 -- it just gets > stuck somewhere around "ide-cd driver 5.00" line, if I try BOOT_DEBUG=4 > it falls into the busybox hsell but I guess too early so I can't even > exist since USB keyboard isn't yet active > > Please find snapshots of the screen(s) at different stages of the boot > process: > > http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150744.jpg > http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150816.jpg > http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150901.jpg > > if I get into openboot via pressing power twice upon beep -- I get only > secondary display on, if via stop-a -- both seems to be present: > > http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_150958.jpg > http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_151049.jpg > http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/20120213_151058.jpg > > how could I troubleshoot what prevents it from booting normally into the > installer? > > Thank you in advance > -- > =------------------------------------------------------------------= > Keep in touch www.onerussian.com > Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120213204131.ga16...@onerussian.com > >
