V490 hangs when booting installation CD (Gentoo 2008.0)

[junhao82]

Hi,

I am trying to install Gentoo on my V490, but the installation cd hangs during bootup. Any idea what can be causing this problem?

Note: I have enabled only 4GB of RAM (3 memory banks disabled using "asr-disable" for silo to start booting.

<openboot output>
Probing I/O buses
Sun Fire V490, No Keyboard
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.18.11, 4096 MB memory installed, Serial #69446150.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:23:aa:6, Host ID: 8423aa06.
Rebooting with command: boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/ide@6/cdrom@0,0:f File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.13
\
----------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the Gentoo/Linux SPARC64 InstallCD 2008.0
----------------------------------------------------
boot: gentoo
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.24
Loading initial ramdisk (1717060 bytes at 0xB0FF800000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
|
Remapping the kernel... done.
bootmem_init: Scan pavail, choose_bootmap_pfn: kern[b0ff000000:b0ff4b2000] avoid[b0ff800000:b0ff9a4000]
choose_bootmap_pfn: Using 5800000 [b000000000]
init_bootmem(min[5800000], bootmap[5800000], max[587fd8b])
free_bootmem(pavail:0): base[b000000000] size[feffe000]
free_bootmem(pavail:1): base[b0ff000000] size[b02000]
free_bootmem(pavail:2): base[b0ffb06000] size[10000]
reserve_bootmem(initrd): base[b0ff800000] size[b0ff9a3344]
reserve_bootmem(kernel): base[b0ff000000] size[4b0720]
reserve_bootmem(bootmap): base[b000000000] size[ffb8]
memory_present(0, 5800000, 587f7ff)
memory_present(0, 587f800, 587fd81)
memory_present(0, 587fd83, 587fd8b)
OF stdout device is: /pci@9,700000/ebus@1/serial@1,400000:a
Booting Linux...
mem_init: Calling free_all_bootmem().
</openboot>

Thanks for you help!

Junhao

[Januszzz]

damn bad answer, but I would use 2007.0 or even 2006.1 or so and go with update

I got several v440 and v490 and they boots fine on one of those olders CDs.

[junhao82]

hmm... that's is something I have not tried.

Okay, will try and report. Thanks! =)