Hello! On 3/9/21 12:28 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I tried hard installing Debian/sparc64, it was not easy at all and haven't > concluded. > > The T2000 I started from had Linux already installed, with an older 4.x > series kernel, > I'd guess not updated since 3 years. It was working and was configured with > SILO. I tried > updating but the boot partition was too small to fit old and new kernels, > also the (partially?) > installed 5.x kernel on reboot entered in an endless loop of crashes I could > not stop nor log. > > Unfortunately the fresh install I did with one of the working ISOs suffers > from the same crashes! > > > I then went on with snapshots, going back from the latest I found... > > 2020-11-16 -> this one worked! (but system is unbootable due to crash, of > that in a second mail)
This sounds like a hardware problem. The newer images should all work on sparc64 with a few images that don't. Can you make sure the memory is ok, i.e. by installing Solaris? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
