Package: installation-reports Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CDImage version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.7/sparc/iso-cd/debian-507-sparc-CD-1.isoDate: <Date and time of the install> 2011-01-09
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> Sun Sparc Ultra 10 Processor: Ultra SPARC IIi 333 MHZ Memory: 1GB Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> ? didn't go that far Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): didn't go that far Base System Installation Checklist: E [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [ ] Detect network card: [ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install.> start to boot and prints lots of messages on screen, but then stopsthe last messages are[0.000000] Booting Linux...[0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130071[0.000000] Kernel command line:[0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)[0.000000] clocksource: mult[300c5] shift[16][0.000000] clockevent: mult[553f7ced] shift[32][42.966816] Console: colour dummy device 80x25[43.020133] console handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0]after this nothing seems to happen I have previously been running Sarge and FreeBSD 8.1 so the hardware should be fine.rescue mode has the same problem, expert mode has the same problem The following image has a similar problem, the error message is a bit different, but stops when doing something with the consolehttp://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.7/sparc/iso-cd/debian-507-sparc-businesscard.isolast line is: [0.000000] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled