On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 04:22:31PM -0300, Eduardo Cruz wrote: > Hello, I am trying to get the most recently debian testing release to work > in a Sun T5220 server. > The processor is a niagara t2. > Ubuntu doesn't even boot the kernel of the install CD. I get an illegal > instruction error. > However, Debian-testing installs fine. > After installation, it boots successfully from hardisk, I hit ENTER in silo > menu, and it loads debian. > But at the end of the boot, after loading the ssh server and mta, the system > suddenly freezes, without any error messages. It doesn't even show the login > terminal. > Do you have any ideias of what is happening?
Yes, probably what's happening is that it does not put a tty on a serial console [0]. The fix is in the works, but it's a bit involved. In the meantime you can work around the problem by manually modifying /etc/inittab (or /target/etc/inittab, if you choose to do it from the installer shell). You should uncomment the following (or similar) lines, to get a login prompt on the serial console: #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2011/03/msg00058.html Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110508084442.ga10...@droopy.oc.cox.net