An update on this. For interest sake I tried an install of Ubuntu 8.04 Sparc. That gets far further than either of the Debian installs.
1. No CPU lockup messages. 2. NIC's auto-negotiate fine which didn't happen for both Debian installs. The Ubuntu install still failed but failed with a SILO install error. So it really got most of the way there compared to the other two Debian attempts. Regards Brian -----Original Message----- From: Brian Noonan <br...@affcomp.org> Sent: Saturday, 25 September 2021 12:23 PM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23 Good morning Adrian! (Well, it is morning here - lol!) I tried that earlier iso - thank you. Unfortunately, I get the same error. Just much later in the installation process. This time the CPU lockup appeared when trying to download from a mirror. It seems each incidence of the lockup happens when trying to use the NIC's. I'm going to see if there is a firmware update for the machine and go from there. Thank you for your efforts. I was using Aurora Linux on a Sparc 5/170 many years ago and then had a cross compile of the Linux Vax project setup on an Alphaserver 3305 running Red Hat (Whitebox AS800) so it is something I want to get going again for sure. Unfortunately, most of my Vax, Sparc's and Alpha's are still in storage on the other side of the world from my current location. Regards Brian -----Original Message----- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> Sent: Friday, 24 September 2021 10:12 PM To: Brian Noonan <br...@affcomp.org> Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23 Hello Brian! On 9/24/21 13:24, Brian Noonan wrote: > However, I get an error. > watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! > The error happens at different points in the install. First time was > when it tried to configure the NIC's by DHCP and the second was when > it tried to communicate to an NTP server. Some of the older SPARC machines have trouble with newer kernels, so I you can try using an older image which uses a 4.x kernel. See: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2019-07-16/ 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
