Re: Sun Blade 1000

2018-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Rick, hi Tom, On 05/17/2018 03:09 PM, Rick Leir wrote: Tom, Frans Yes, perhaps it is fixed. However there are not many eyes on this problem, so maybe it's not fixed. There was a suggestion that this driver would only fail during installation, but would be fine if you had booted from some

Re: Installation tests with GRUB on GPT disks

2018-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 05/19/2018 10:03 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 05/18/2018 10:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Ok, thank you. Ok, after testing I can confirm that at least on my T5220 a separate partition for `/boot` is not needed. I'll try to check what my oldest UltraSPARC machines make out if it.

Re: Installation tests with GRUB on GPT disks

2018-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 05/19/2018 09:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: In the meantime I found a way to extract the initrd from the TILO image. But trying an installation with it and the CDROM kernel (which I assume is identical to the kernel inside of the TILO image) showed some issues (missing Debian ports