On 01/24/2011 08:45 AM, Matthias Runge wrote: 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

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----- From: sparc-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:sparc-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Runge Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:44 PM To: sparc(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [Fedora-sparc] Install failure on Sun Blade 100 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/24/2011 10:34 PM, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc T. Rowe Price (including T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. and its affiliates) and its associates do not provide legal or tax advice. Any tax-related discussion contained in this e-mail, including any attachments, is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding any tax penalties or (ii) promoting, marketing, or recommending to any other party any transaction or matter addressed herein. Please consult your independent legal counsel and/or professional tax advisor regarding any legal or tax issues raised in this e-mail. The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized use, copying, disclosure, or distribution of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail.

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 07:11:28 am Matthias Runge wrote: 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.