Hi Rick! On 03/21/2017 08:06 AM, Rick Leir wrote: > (On a SunBlade 2000 (circa 2002) with two Cu processors and 1800M RAM, > booting from the CDROM): I tapped on the 'choose language, choose keyboard, > choose..' > screen a bit and it jumped ahead without me being finished there. OK, now I > understand: the fourth item is 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have > chosen that.
If you are installing over a serial console, you are most likely running into this bug [1]. > Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename > ql2200_fw.bin, and that I should load it from removable media. Does this > firmware matter, and > where can I get it? There is something by that name on the qlogic.com site. I > guess it could be for the FibreChannel interface. OK, ignoring it for now. Yeah, that's the firmware for a QLogic FibreChannel controller. If you don't need it for the installation - assuming you don't install on a FibreChannel block device - just skip it. > After doing 'set up users and passwords' correctly it goes on to 'Configure > the clock'. It returns from that immediately without doing anything. I was > hoping to > set the timezone. Again, this is most likely the issue as described in [1]. Try selecting items using individual characters on the keyboard (e.g. "a", "b", "c") which correspond to the initial letters of the item in the list. > Now it is doing 'Detecting disks'. Gee, it took a long time on that, maybe a > few minutes. Then it says 'No disk drive was detected' and gives me a list of > drivers to select from. I am guessing now: qla2xxx ... long pause, then I am > back to the list of drivers screen. Try 'qla1280' ... 'qla4xxx' .. help! I > think > the disk hardware is OK because OpenBSD is installed and can boot. What can I > use for a disk driver? How could I load the ql2200_fw.bin? What kind of controller/disk setup are you trying to install on? You can scroll up and check what's in the kernel log in your serial terminal. Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854588 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
