I'll try that, thanks. But one thing I noticed is that when I try to ping/ssh the machine by its hostname, I get no response. I don't know which ip it got to try to ping directly by the ip, but as I said, through the hostname doesn't work.
2011/5/8 Jurij Smakov <ju...@wooyd.org> > 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 > -- Eduardo Henrique Molina da Cruz MSc student Parallel and Distributed Processing Group Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
