Re: Failures attempting to install in an LDOM

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 15:37 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
> I finally got round to trying to install debian-sparc in an LDOM on my T4 server.
> 
> Sadly, this didn't work.
> 
> With Debian 12, software installation fails. I see
> 
> Jun 10 08:43:02 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> Jun 10 08:43:03 in-target:  console-setup-linux : Depends: keyboard-configuration (= 1.220) but 1.227 is installed
> 
> along with some unrelated dpkg-deb segfaults. Ignoring that, the bootloader
> won't install.
> 
> With Debian 10, it appears that software installation succeeds, but again
> the bootloader fails to install.
> 
> Is there a known-to-work set of instructions available that would get me
> closer to a working install?

Which image did you use? You might have caught a broken image.

The problem with Debian Ports is that the images are generated from Debian unstable,
so there is always a chance of downloading an image that is broken.

This one should work:

> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-11-17/debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso

Adrian

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