On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:31:31PM -0400, Brian Thompson wrote: > Jurij Smakov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Have anyone tried to install on a sparc box using lenny beta2 >> installer images? My installation is hanging on "Configuring SILO", >> apparently because it prompts (without using debconf) for a >> confirmation about installing SILO configuration. Can anyone please >> confirm this behaviour? I can't see any relevant changes neither to >> the SILO package's postinst nor installer's silo-installer package, so >> I'm not even sure how it worked previously. >> >> Cheers. >> > Jurij, > > Just out of curiosity, did the disk used to have Solaris on it? > If so, can you try another disk that never had Solaris installed > on it? > > I've been having issues lately with a few boxes that refuse to > recognize disk under Debian that were previously Solaris disks. > I've even tried 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=512 > count=100' to knock out the first few sectors but to no avail.
No, this is a different failure. My disks are detected just fine (after I do the manual firmware loading dance), SILO hangs much later, after the base system and kernel is installed and an attempt to configure SILO is made. Cheers. -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
