Install failure on Sun Blade 100

[Matthias Runge]

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Hello list, dear fedorians,

a few days ago I got a Sun Blade 100. After debugging a miss-jumpered
hard drive I was able to install Solaris 10.

Net-Booting Fedora from
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/12-Bet...

(tried different .img-files)
results in boot, freezing with the message:

console handover: boot [earlyprom0] real tty0

Which .img-file is correct for net-booting?

I've even tried different versions of deibans net installer.

Do you have any suggestions, what to check, how to debug?

Thanks,
Matthias
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[Dennis Gilmore]

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> Hello list, dear fedorians,
>
> a few days ago I got a Sun Blade 100. After debugging a miss-jumpered
> hard drive I was able to install Solaris 10.
>
> Net-Booting Fedora from
> http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/12-Bet...

You can burn the boot.iso and boot from it.  network booing using "boot
net" is not supported. the images are just too big. grub2 has plans to
support booting over the network. once it does we can suppoort "boot net"
again

Dennis
> (tried different .img-files)
> results in boot, freezing with the message:
>
> console handover: boot [earlyprom0] real tty0
>
> Which .img-file is correct for net-booting?
>
> I've even tried different versions of deibans net installer.
>
> Do you have any suggestions, what to check, how to debug?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthias
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[Fabio M. Di Nitto]

On 01/24/2011 08:45 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> Hello list, dear fedorians,
>
> a few days ago I got a Sun Blade 100. After debugging a miss-jumpered
> hard drive I was able to install Solaris 10.
>
> Net-Booting Fedora from
> http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/12-Bet...
>
> (tried different .img-files)
> results in boot, freezing with the message:
>
> console handover: boot [earlyprom0] real tty0

It is possible that you are hitting this bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602853

we already fixed it upstream.

Fabio

[Matthias Runge]

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On 01/24/2011 10:34 PM, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 08:45 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > Hello list, dear fedorians,
> >
> > a few days ago I got a Sun Blade 100. After debugging a miss-jumpered
> > hard drive I was able to install Solaris 10.
> >
> > Net-Booting Fedora from
> > http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/12-Bet...
> >
> > (tried different .img-files)
> > results in boot, freezing with the message:
> >
> > console handover: boot [earlyprom0] real tty0
>
> It is possible that you are hitting this bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602853
>
> we already fixed it upstream.
>
> Fabio
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> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc

Thank you for your kind replies.
Sadly, I was hit by another bug(?): System boots until it halts with the
message
console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled

looks like system switches to a console, I'm unable to view. Is there a
chance to redirect the console to serial console (or else?)

I'm currently downloading latest debian-install build. If booting this,
I'l put a note here.
Thank you,
Matthias
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[Cicone, Anthony]

You need to connect a serial console or your pc/latop and use HyperTerm to install.  You then need to set the Openprom to the serial console.

setenv input-device ttyS0
setenv output-device ttyS0

Thanks.

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Subject: Re: [Fedora-sparc] Install failure on Sun Blade 100

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On 01/24/2011 10:34 PM, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> On 01/24/2011 08:45 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > Hello list, dear fedorians,
> >
> > a few days ago I got a Sun Blade 100. After debugging a miss-jumpered 
> > hard drive I was able to install Solaris 10.
> >
> > Net-Booting Fedora from
> > http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test
> > /12-Beta/sparc/os/images/
> >
> > (tried different .img-files)
> > results in boot, freezing with the message:
> >
> > console handover: boot [earlyprom0] real tty0
>
> It is possible that you are hitting this bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602853
>
> we already fixed it upstream.
>
> Fabio
> _______________________________________________
> sparc mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc

Thank you for your kind replies.
Sadly, I was hit by another bug(?): System boots until it halts with the message
console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled

looks like system switches to a console, I'm unable to view. Is there a chance to redirect the console to serial console (or else?)

I'm currently downloading latest debian-install build. If booting this, I'l put a note here.
Thank you,
Matthias
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[Matthias Runge]

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On 01/26/2011 03:45 PM, Cicone, Anthony wrote:
> You need to connect a serial console or your pc/latop and use HyperTerm to install.  You then need to set the Openprom to the serial console.
>
> setenv input-device ttyS0
> setenv output-device ttyS0
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----

Thank you for your reply.

I found out, I had to use setenv input-device ttya resp. output-device ttya

Sadly, anaconda kicked out of life during hard disk partition process.
Is there a known limitation, when a sun partition scheme exists?

Anacondas graphics seem to be some kind of less optimal when installing
via serial console. Looks like some chars are not printed as intended.

I was able to remove all partitions using debian installer. In second
attempt, this came much farther.

Matthias
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[Lamar Owen]

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 07:11:28 am Matthias Runge wrote:
> Sadly, anaconda kicked out of life during hard disk partition process.
> Is there a known limitation, when a sun partition scheme exists?

The best use of the serial console install is to start up a VNC remote install, then you have the GUI on another box via VNC.

In either case you want the partitioning to be the default; my experience is that the current install (as of F12-beta) won't work otherwise.  Take the defaults, and customize after firstboot, including packages and such.

And do read the archives of this list; Dennis and Spot have both posted about recommendations for the install.

I have a Blade 100 here, but haven't fired it up yet, as I need to find a DIMM for it (I have a Birdsnest-Lite motherboard I could swipe the DIMM from, though).  I've done a Blade 1000 and an Enterprise 6500 install of F12-beta-sparc from the DVD, and in both cases I used the VNC install method.  And in both cases I took the default partitioning.

Dennis or Spot can of course feel free to correct me on that.