RE: Debian on a Sun Blade 1500
Don't give up quite yet Todd. You may wanna try the latest d-i images for sarge. I had luck with them on my SunBlade 1500. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I used the July 8th image, but I think the images that have been released since them are functional. The only issue I had was with the keybaord mapping. I had to wing it through the first part of the install, but within 30 minutes I had a functional sarge install! Ryan Terry ADP Benefit Services From: Todd Echterling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:55 AMTo: 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org'Subject: Debian on a Sun Blade 1500 Good Afternoon everyone, I hope someone can help.I am trying to install SPARC Debian on a Sun Blade 1500. I have tried debian-30r1-sparc-binary-1.iso, debian-30r2-sparc-binary-1.iso, the net install sarge disk, and the businesscard image, but none will boot. It comes up with the screen welcoming you to Debian and press Enter to start the install. I press enter start the and the machine displays this message "loading initial ramdisk" and then reboots. I have tried other linux on it and they don't even get that far. If anybody can help it would be much appreciated. Some of the images successfully allocate the ram, load the initial ramdisk and then just lock up when it says “ remapping the kernel” Please help! I want Debian on the box. I may have to give up and use that “G” linux… uggg Thanks, Todd E Echterling System Administrator Computer Science Department Millersville University
Re: Sunblade 1500 and Sarge Installer
I hate to spam the list with all of this, but It may be helpful if anyone else is trying to do this. I had success today with the businesscard.iso from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ It will at least boot on my Sunblade 1500. The only issue I see right now is that eth0 isn’t getting link, and ‘ifconfig eth0 up’ fails. Ryan Terry
Re: Sunblade 1500 and Sarge Installer
As an update to this I went to http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/ and tried the CD from 07-07-2004. This cd boots, loads the ramdisk, then when it says its booting the linux kernel the box reboots. Ryan Terry ADP Benefit Services 801.956.6999 801.509.3212
Sunblade 1500 and Sarge Installer
I’ve just spent the last week reading through the archives and trying various methods to get debian on my Sunblade 1500. At this point I have still not succeeded, but am getting closer. I read through May’s (May 2004) list and came across two mini-iso images that I was finally able to boot from without initrd issues. http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/mini.iso --Boots, but Kernel Panic on mounting rootfs. http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-06-04/cdrom-mini.iso --Makes it through initrd, but when loading kernel it reboots. I have tried appending the rootfstype=ext2 option to the first iso, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. I was wondering if there was any more information on this issue, or if a novice like myself could be of any assistance to the folks that are working on this. Ryan Terry
