Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

On 7/2/23 06:35, Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are trying to boot Debian Sparc64 on a SPARC Enterprise M4000 server
> (SPARC64 VII+), but, after selecting normal / expert / secure install mode,
> we get this error message and the installer quits:
> 
> *ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Zero*
> *%TL:1 %TT:28 %TPC:43056c %TnPC:430570 %TSTATE:1180001603*
> *%PSTATE:16 ( IE:1 PRIV:1 PEF:1 )*
> 
> 
> We have tried with the following ISO images:
> *debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso*, *debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso*
> and *debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso*.
> 

You are likely kicking a dead horse. That M4000 is similar to my M3000
and you will never ever get Linux to run there. Ever. Unless you have a
few million dollars for research and development and then be able to
push all the good research upstream into the Linux kernel. Sorry. The
machine is dead weight. A room heater at best. I had one of those also.
Complete with 256G of memory and the top of the line processors. Trash.

Useless.

Sadly the Fujitsu M3000 SPARC64 VII+ does bad things after we see GRUB :

(1) from the expert install option

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ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Zero
%TL:1 %TT:28 %TPC:10abf30 %TnPC:10abf34 %TSTATE:4480001604
%PSTATE:16 ( IE:1 PRIV:1 PEF:1 )

(2) from the default install option

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ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Zero
%TL:1 %TT:28 %TPC:10abf30 %TnPC:10abf34 %TSTATE:4480001604
%PSTATE:16 ( IE:1 PRIV:1 PEF:1 )


{0} ok