On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 15:25, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Could you try the tc1 version ? > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso > It was absolutely the same behaviour as I described in my posting at > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/06/msg00092.html > > That's why I hope to get some further help from debian-sprac (sorry for > the cross-posting). Is there anything I should do after removing a broken > 10GB IDE disk and inserting a new factored 40GB disk? I can not exclude > any hardware problems and so may be debian-boot is not the best list.
Just a couple of days ago I installed Debian on a new 40 GB disk on my Ultra 5, which has the same motherboard as the Ultra 10. I had big troubles to get both the cdrom and the disk recognised, but eventually got around it by using one HD flatcable with 2 connectors to connect the HD and cdrom to the motherboard, and putting that in the motherboard connector where the cdrom was originally connected. Using 2 seperate cables for the HD and the cdrom in the 2 motherboard connectors didn't work for me. Still I couldn't boot from CD but I was able to do a succesful netboot with the Woody image (Sarge image gave fast data access exeption), so I could install to HD and boot from it. Then upgraded to testing and got the cdrom recognised at boot by adding append="hdb=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" at the end of /etc/silo.conf, and putting sg and ide-scsi in /etc/modules so that they are loaded at boottime. Hope this is of any help, basically I would suggest to try out different connector combinations, and look at the jumper settings for master/slave at the HD, do a netboot and look at the output of dmesg for detected devices. Good luck. What is this tcl version btw?