Hi Adrian, On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 13:24 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to > GRUB as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC machines > thanks to the work of Eric Snowberg from Oracle. > > In order to make sure GRUB works on all machines supported by the > sparc64 port, we need your help to test GRUB on your particular > hardware, the older your machine, the better.
> 7. Report back to the list and include your hardware and partition > setup Probing system devices Probing memory Probing I/O buses screen not found. keyboard not found. Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and output. Probing system devices Probing memory Probing I/O buses Sun Fire V440, No Keyboard Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.30.4.a, 20480 MB memory installed, Serial #57654521. Ethernet address 0:3:ba:6f:bc:f9, Host ID: 836fbcf9. booting with command: boot Boot device: disk File and args: GRUB Loading kernel... screen not found. error: out of memory. error: no suitable video mode found. GNU GRUB version 2.02-2+sparc64.3 Loading Linux 4.13.0-1-sparc64-smp ... # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 136.7G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 902.1M 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:2 0 135.9G 0 part │ └─md0 9:0 0 135.7G 0 raid1 / └─sda3 8:3 0 136.7G 0 part sdb 8:16 0 136.7G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 902.1M 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 135.9G 0 part │ └─md0 9:0 0 135.7G 0 raid1 / └─sdb3 8:19 0 136.7G 0 part sdc 8:32 0 33.9G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 30G 0 part │ └─md1 9:1 0 30G 0 raid1 /home └─sdc2 8:34 0 3.9G 0 part [SWAP] sdd 8:48 0 33.9G 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 0 30G 0 part │ └─md1 9:1 0 30G 0 raid1 /home └─sdd2 8:50 0 3.9G 0 part [SWAP] sr0 11:0 1 197.2M 0 rom The sda and sdb are Sun, sdc and sdd are GTP. # uname -a Linux deblnxsrv211 4.13.0-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 4.13.4-2 (2017- 10-15) sparc64 GNU/Linux Thanks, Frans van Berckel