Re: Lenny on E4500
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I've just tried booting a Lenny CD on an E4500 and after the > language/keyboard dialogue I get "No common CD-ROM drive was detected". > > I can see the modules sr_mod, cdrom, sun_esp, esp_scsi, > scsi_transport_spi, scsi_mod and sunhme are loaded, cat /proc/scsi/scsi > reports a Toshiba CD-ROM drive. I suspect this may be the same problem we've seen on a lot of SunBlade systems which is documented in the installation guide [1]. If CD does not work, try netboot. As far as we know it is an upstream kernel problem that nobody is fixing. > That particular CD has just been used to bring up an Ultra-1, and I can > boot Slackware on the E4500 without problem. If slackware uses a similar kernel and does work, you could try to find out why by comparing boot logs, kernel configs, modules loaded, module settings, etc, etc, ... If you can find out what the magic is to make it work, you may well make a lot of people very happy. Cheers, FJP [1]http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch05s03.html#sparc-boot-problems signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Lenny on E4500
I've just tried booting a Lenny CD on an E4500 and after the language/keyboard dialogue I get "No common CD-ROM drive was detected". I can see the modules sr_mod, cdrom, sun_esp, esp_scsi, scsi_transport_spi, scsi_mod and sunhme are loaded, cat /proc/scsi/scsi reports a Toshiba CD-ROM drive. That particular CD has just been used to bring up an Ultra-1, and I can boot Slackware on the E4500 without problem. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian+KDE for SPARC
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I've not tried upgrading from Etch to Lenny, but have certainly seen Lenny overwriting its own xorg.conf on an x86 laptop where I'd had to add a line (AGPMode if I remember correctly) to get it working. Is there anything I can usefully do here to test this? I think this might have been fixed. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
