CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc

2004-11-18 Thread Walt L. Williams 
Greetings

This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge testing
for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to
boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find 
the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not 
install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. 
Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know.

Walt Williams

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc

2004-11-18 Thread Mehul N. Sanghvi 

Walt L. Williams wrote:

Greetings

This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge testing
for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to
boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find 
the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not 
install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. 
Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know.


Walt Williams




'allo,

 I had a similar problem one of the times that I managed to get the
installer to work.  You need to go to the 2nd virtual console, and then
do an 'insmod' on a few scsi modules.  Look in /lib/modules//kernel/
for the appropriate ones.  Its something like sr.o and sg.o and also
crc32.o which is used by the sr.o.  I can't remember exactly as it
was a few weeks ago.  And since then I have not been able to
use the Debian Installer at all as it dies out at the point
where it does remapping of the kernel just after SILO loads
the initial ramdisk.


cheers,

  mehul

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc

2004-11-18 Thread Steve Pacenka 
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:56, Walt L. Williams wrote:
 Greetings
 
 This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge testing
 for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to
 boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find 
 the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not 
 install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. 
 Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know.

This exact problem has been discussed recently in this list, and a
related repair to the Sarge installer is in progress.  The problem is
that the installer did not autodetect the Ultra 2's SCSI controller and
did not load its kernel module, so the SCSI CD-ROM drive (and also any
SCSI hard drives) are inaccessible.

Temporary workaround, at point when you have the can't find CD-ROM
screen:

  ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a console

  modprobe esp
  modprobe sr_mod

  ctrl-alt-f1

  retry to find the CD-ROM drive

After this workaround, I was able to do a clean Sarge install on an
Ultra 2 SMP box.

-- SP



 
 Walt Williams