Hello Nadav,

>What binary distribution has the best support for Sun machines?

The first distribution which was equipped with support for Sun SPARC64
is Ubuntu; this happened after some attempts to boot Fedora Core (by
Dave Miller and others) failed giving panic.

This of course does not imply the Ubuntu is the best one , but it is
the most veteran
in this field. So I suggest you try it (you can try Ubuntu live-cd
first to see what are the results).

>but after boot the keyboard stops working (It only has USB
>keyboard&mouse).

to make sure this keyboard is identified please
try : "tail -f /var/log/messages", and then
unplug the USB keyboard and plug it back in. Do you see any messages ?

Regards,
Rami Rosen






On 7/26/07, Nadav Shemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I have a Sun Ultra 45 and I've tried (unsuccessfully) to install
>  some kind of Linux distribution on it.
>  I've tried Debian netinst (both stable and testing) and Gentoo (stage2)
>  CDs, but after boot the keyboard stops working (It only has USB
>  keyboard&mouse).
>  Booting from the serial console, It hangs with the following message:
>  su: Cannot register IRQ 1
>
>  Has anyone had any luck with this particular machine?
>  What binary distribution has the best support for Sun machines?
>  Can anyone help me?
>
>  Nadav Shemer
>  Tehuti Networks
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

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