> Same problem on Ultra10 and blade 100, not gnome but xfce. Both
> epihany and arora crash with BUS error - but URL dependent.
SPARC is particular about operand alignment. Getting it wrong causes
a bus error. This could be caused by a compiler bug, or by ill
advised forms of hand coded memory
> As a possibly separate issue, I'm now having trouble getting the
> installer to recognize the hard disk. There are several things I need
> to try, including moving that drive to SCSI ID 0.
False alarm: now that I can get that far, I can see that I seem to have
hard disk hardware problems.
>Fro
> After looking at this again I'm fairly certain that this is the real
> problem, so I've gone ahead and made the necessary changes. These
> changes I made should become effective in daily built installer images
> as soon as we switch over to the 2.6.25 kernel.
> A confirmation that loading s
> Hmm. There is also a sun_esp module, which depends on esp_scsi. I wonder
> if that's the missing link here.
> I've attached that module. It should be compatible with the current
> 2.6.24-1 kernel used in the installer. Can you try copying that in place
> (/lib/modules/2.6.24-1-sparc64/kerne
> Two things that may yet help:
> - the output of lsmod after hardware detection (to see if anything
> obvious is not loaded)
After modifying the hw-detect list and having the installer try to find a
CD-ROM, here's the lsmod:
~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ide_generic
> (Without really looking into the udebs:) The socal module should be
> included in the installer. But according to the help to the module in
> the kernel config you'll probably need the microcode from the Solaris
> driver to make it work. YOu probably want to open a shell and try to
> modprob
> Just use the netboot installer. Settign up a tftpd + dhcp is done in a
> few minutes if you don't have them around allready.
I just tried that, but the netboot image also seems to lack the SOCAL+
driver. I've actually built my own kernel and netbooted it too, but I'm
having trouble getting al
I'm trying to install on an E3500 via serial console. The disks are
internal FC. The machine has a Creator3D board I'm currently ignoring.
I downloaded the install media on September 7 from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/
I've gotten past the inab
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