Hi Adrian, so today`s test revealed.
1). The Intenso CDRs are crap. I burnt a new disc and this one started Grub 2). Before retrying to reinstall Debian I had booted into Solaris and thought rit would be a good moment to give Debian a try. And suddenly after loading Grub and some error messages that I have had before as well the installer switched mode and no fizzy screen output! So it looks like the XVR-1200 needs a pre-initialization and then the Debian terminal installer works. 3). So I tuned my Blade 2500 (silver) off and wanted to reproduce the symptoms. Booting straight into the Debian CD installer produced the frizzy screen output I had before. I booted into Solaris, rebooted and then redid the Debian installation and no frizzy output with the installer. 4). Is there a size limitation with Debian sparc64? Wanted to install on one of the 146GB internal disks but during portioning I get the "warning" that the disk has "562253" cylinders which is greater than the maximum of "65536". The installer continues but when rebooting from the disk it stops with: Can't open disk2 Warning: Fcode sequence resulted in a net stack depth change of -24 Evaluating: the file just loaded does not appear to be executable. https://ibb.co/8jkCMPg https://ibb.co/GxGTGFg https://ibb.co/f9p0mFr https://ibb.co/HhNGf3k https://ibb.co/P9FfdwS Btw. If you would like to investigate the XVR-1200 initialization problem I could send you one of my XVR-1200 that are within the big box blades. Cheers Iggi Am 24.08.21, 15:33 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>: Hello James On 8/24/21 3:31 PM, James Bond wrote: > tested on Sun Blade 1500/2500 (both silver) with an XVR-1200. > > The "older" image at least booted to the point where you have the scribbled > screen, the "latest" iso does not even come that far. On both machines. I need some error messages. It's not really possible to diagnose the problem without more information. Also, you can try a slightly older image. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
