Hi Peter, On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 15:37 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > I finally got round to trying to install debian-sparc in an LDOM on my T4 > server. > > Sadly, this didn't work. > > With Debian 12, software installation fails. I see > > Jun 10 08:43:02 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies: > Jun 10 08:43:03 in-target: console-setup-linux : Depends: > keyboard-configuration (= 1.220) but 1.227 is installed > > along with some unrelated dpkg-deb segfaults. Ignoring that, the bootloader > won't install. > > With Debian 10, it appears that software installation succeeds, but again > the bootloader fails to install. > > Is there a known-to-work set of instructions available that would get me > closer to a working install?
Which image did you use? You might have caught a broken image. The problem with Debian Ports is that the images are generated from Debian unstable, so there is always a chance of downloading an image that is broken. This one should work: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-11-17/debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
