Hi Jeremy, On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 00:38 -0400, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > I have installed Debian on my Ultra 1 with a UltraSparc 1 CPU. This is > the first time I've ever had any success in getting any linux distro > installed over the past 3 years! Wow, did it take a while! > > I do have one issue I don't believe is related to the patches.
FWIW, the patches are not part of Debian yet. They have all been tested out of tree. > I can boot to Grub but grub fails to boot. > > Can't read disk label. > Can't open disk label package Can you take a screenshot of this? I would suggest raising this question on the grub-devel mailing list as I have also observed a similar problem with QEMU. Installing works, but booting the installed system with GRUB doesn't work. No idea yet what the problem is. > I'm still looking for a solution to this but haven't found it yet. > Any pointers here would be appreciated. I did boot into the rescue > CD from Debian and updated GRUB2 and reinstall it. That didn't seem > to help. The partition table type on my disk is sun and I do have > the sparc64-ieee1275 modules for grub installed. I don't know yet. This needs to be investigated by a GRUB developer. > Once I overcome this grub hurdle is there any process I should run to > more thoroughly test this install? Something that would stress test > these new patches explicitly? Are there any stats or other info from > this system that would be helpful with validating this is working properly > now? You would need to install my test kernel first before stress-testing: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/ Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
