Comment 2 for bug 618595

Hello Dan,
     Yes indeed I was able to get Debian to install and it has no problem
with SILO - the issue is that I wanted Ubuntu 10.04 to install and it failed
at the point of installing SILO.

Best regards,

Art.

On 31 August 2010 01:00, Dan Pitic <email address hidden> wrote:

> I was able to install Debian on a SPARC system, but it uses SILO Version
> 1.4.13.
>
> --
> SILO fails on cd installer boot for SUN T2000 servers
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/618595
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> Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu: New
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: debian-installer
>
> When attempting to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a SPARC system the SILO
> installer fails - initially thought this might be a faulty ISO or CD -
> changed discs, drives and made new discs from ISO's for both regular and
> alternate installer discs - always fails at same place as per the following:
>
> {0} ok
> {0} ok boot cdrom
> Boot device: /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/ide@8/cdrom@0,0:f File and args:
> SILO Version 1.4.14
> ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Data Access MMU Miss
>
> {0} ok
>
>
> Is this something I'm doing wrong or is this a known issue?
>
> ISO's used:
>
> ubuntu-10.04-server-sparc.iso
> ubuntu-10.04-alternate-sparc.iso
>
> Server platform:
>
> SUN SunFire T2000 - 16 core SPARC with 4Gb ram 80Gb hdd and DVD ROM
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