From: "Michael Hilton" <mhilton@iprimus.com.au> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:53:09 +1000 Message-ID: <NGBBLEHOELGPANAOFPHNAEAJCAAA.mhilton@iprimus.com.au> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Installation Hangs on hardware detection
Gidday,
I can confirm the same thing happens on an E5000 (4x250MHz, 1GB RAM, FCAL
SSA).
I captured this during a install attempt via a serial console (massaged to
remove non printable characters):
.....
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Moving Ramdisk mkmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4,
errno = 2
emory successfully freed
>>> SuSE installation program v1.2 (c) 1996-2001 SuSE GmbH <<<
Starting hardware detection...
> floppy.1: get nvram
> floppy.2: klog info
> misc.9: kernel log
> misc.1: misc data
> misc.2.1: io
> misc.2.2: dma
> misc.2.3: irq
> misc.3: FPU
> misc.3.1: DMA
> misc.3.2: PIC
> misc.3.3: timer
> misc.3.4: RTC
> cpu.1: cpuinfo
> memory.1: main memory size
> pci.1: get pci data
> pci.4: build list
> sys.1: cpu
> monitor.1: ddc
> misc.5: misc data
> ide.1.1: read info
> ide.1.2: read info
> ide.1.3: read info
> ide.1.4: read info
> ide.1.5: read info
> ide.1.6: read info
> ide.1.7
... and then it just stops.
My machine has no PCI interfaces, let alone any IDE interfaces.
Maybe a gentle massaging of the Suse install program's config file/script
(if such exists) maybe a solution. However I've not managed to find the
file/code responsible for this function.
I tried an ealier version of Redhat i.e. 6.2 which installed just fine
however didn't appear to stable (e.g. pinging an IP dropped it back out to
Openboot). I've used RH6.2 on and Ultra-1 for a couple of years quite
satisfactorily.
I'll look forward to any other pearls of wisdom in responce to your message!
It'll be great to get SuSE running on this kind of machine as more of these
devices (Ex000 series anyway) are starting to be decommissioned and junked!
(I paid $150 for mine! and I know of one other possible).
Cheers,
Mike Hilton
U1/U1 Creator/U2 Creator/U5/U30 Creator/E5000
-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Niklas [mailto:pniklas@sinectis.com.ar]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2002 8:47 AM
To: suse-sparc@suse.com
Subject: [suse-sparc] Installation Hangs on hardware detection
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Hi!
I'm a newbie in SPARC hardware, but that didn't stop to try Suse 7.3 for
Sparc :). After reading a few Howto's I was able to boot the CDROM. But
(there's always one), after the kernel's boot, the install programa (YaSt 2)
executes, an run a couple of tests.. One of them is a hardware test, that
freeze at "ide.1.7".. I try sending kernel parameters, but is useless....
The hardware is a Enterprise 3500 with 2Gb RAM, 4 disk Sun 18Gb and a CDROM
drive.
Can anybody tell me, if that happen already... I don't know what else
should
I try...
Thanx in advance!
PD: The system is actually running Solaris 2.6.
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.:: Pablo Niklas ::.
.:: pniklas@sinectis.com.ar ::.
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