On 06/10/2016 06:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I case anyone sees this and is having issues installing debian on any of the > older sbus based sun boxes (early ultra series, E3K, E4K, E5K, E6K, E10K, and > probably a few more), this is how to get it working as of today. > > after the installer fails to detect the cdrom drive, drop to a shell and do > "modprobe sun_esp". If you're hard disk / disks are on esp controllers then > your > good to go. If they're on qlogic controllers you will need a copy of > isp1000.bin. I pulled mine from /lib/firmware/qlogic/isp1000.bin on Gentoo. > You will only > find this firmware on Gentoo if you build the kernel with the Qlogic PTI > driver enabled. > > You'll want to copy isp1000.bin to a cd and mount it in the debian initramfs > rescue shell (/media is a good place). Then you will want to copy that file > from > the cd mount point to /lib/firmware/qlogic/isp1000.bin in the debian > initramfs root. You will have to mkdir the directories. > > You can then exit the shell back into the installer and continue from there. > The installer will fail to find the network driver, this is usually the Sun > HME > driver on these older boxes. Just pick the right driver from the list. It > will then fail to find the disk driver, the right driver for these boxes > should be > either sun_esp or qlogicpti. > > After the installer finishes don't reboot! go back into the shell and chroot > into the new installation. You will want to add your disk controller drivers > to > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (sun_esp or qlogicpti, or both in my case). > Afterwards do a "update-initramfs -u -k <kernel version>" (you can find > you're kernel > version under /lib/modules) and then exit back into the installer. Finally, > you can finish the installation and reboot into a hopefully working install.
You may want to add this to the Debian Wiki or at least at a link to your mail in the mailing list archive in the wiki: > https://wiki.debian.org/PortsSparc You can add it to the bugs list. > As for why you have to load all of these modules by hand? as of now im not > sure but either the installer or systemd/udev isn't detecting sbus devices > automagically. It's a kernel bug - most likely. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
