Hello,
Anyone already tried to install Debian Sparc in a Sun V880 ?! I'm trying to and after I boot it with the CDROM the system starts to boot up and I don't see any errors message but it freezes after it detects the USB ports (There is nothing attached to it and I don't use it).
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I'm using the Debian 6.0.2 SPARC so I believe that it's not a architecture problem. I'm running out of ideas
Now you got me. I'm connected using Putty through a Console session, I plugged a USB Keyboard and the num lock is ok. The server doesn't have a VGA or any other output video so the only way I can connect to the server is via console.
The server V880 have a console port, that I don't know the reason I can't use and the DB25 connection that is working perfectly so far.
The status know is, I'm sure the server didn't freeze, I think the session didn't move to anywhere else because there isn't another option and I'm steel in the same part of the installation problem.
It's been a while since I've done this but I remember two things.
1. The install process likes the CDROM drive to be SCSI ID6 (I assume your CDROM is a SCSI device).
2. The install process didn't like too much memory on the system and sometimes needed a "mem=512m" switch on the boot line to limit the amount of memory the install kernel could see.
It may just be a disc that expects VGA; most livecds/installers/etc wouldn't run terminals on every available serial port. But it obviously prints kernel stuff to the serial port -- maybe you can give the kernel init=/bin/bash or somesuch to run a console directly, which would presumably appear the same place the kernel output does.
Failing that, how hard would it be to add video to this machine, even just temporarily?
It's also quite possible that the install routine is loading a driver that is incompatible with the V880 hardware. These Linux distros are prone to that kind of thing. For example, I know that to load Fedora on a V480 you must blacklist a couple of drivers (pata_cmd64x & cassini) on the boot line.
I've also read that the "nouveau" driver causes some issues on the V880.
Thank you hicksd8 I will try that tomorrow, today I'm out of the office but I will Google it
Corona688, that is a option but that is not the option that I would like to use, I will try first the hicksd8 trick and if that fails I will search for a Video Card.
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