Comments on: Debian on Sunfire V120

By: magvar

magvar — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:02:15 +0000

Thanks so much for this guide! Since installation didn’t work out even if I left the network cables unplugged until after network configuration was completed, I continued looking for a tip.

This is what solved it for me;
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Problem-with-a-SunFire-V120—-Kernel-panics-when-trying-to–install-p32278745.html

Plug two network cables in. When the installation screen appears, unplug the cable connected to NET0, leave NET1 plugged in and choose “eth1″ as the primary interface to use in the Debian installation. The result: No problems while installing.

By: [OvO]wl

[OvO]wl — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:45:28 +0000

Further update about the kernel panic issue. When you are going through the configure network stage of the installation, unplug all the network cables (apart from LOM) from the V120. The Aiee crash thing happens when a network card receives a packet while the network cards are being initialized.

So unplug the network cards while the hardware is being configured and the network card is being configured and Debian wont kernel panic. Replug the network cards afterwards

By: [OvO]wl

[OvO]wl — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:20:16 +0000

Same thing happened to me, the installer probes USB storage then crashes. But once it actually got past that stage so there must be a way around it!!

The problem then was I couldn’t get debian to recognise an official mirror, even when i gave it the mirror, it couldn’t see the mirror at all, I will try again tonight.

By: jamie trenchard

jamie trenchard — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:15:22 +0000

I would be concerned about the logs still getting rubbish written to them. Do I have basis for this concern or am I just worrying for no reason?

In my netra, I’ve forced eth1 into 100mbps full duplex, plugged a loopback adaptor in, and downed eth1. Driver thinks theres a cable in, so it doesn’t bother with forcing negotiation.

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By: sean

sean — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:44:12 +0000

Everything went fine for me up to the point the installer got past the initial questions about language and location. For some reason it then tries to load usb-storage and the kernel crashes Trying to find out how to nfs boot instead now.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:36:39 +0000

Many thanks for your article. It helped me a lot and saved a lot of trouble ! Thanks again for sharing !

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