{"id":1670,"date":"2009-07-09T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2009-07-09T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T04:26:11","slug":"debian-unstable-on-a-sun-fire-t1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/debian-unstable-on-a-sun-fire-t1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian unstable on a Sun Fire T1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

So i got the T1000 working again (finally, after much screwing about trying to get the part). I then hit the ever annoying “no console” problem, where the console didn’t work – kind of problematic.<\/p>\n

After a firmware upgrade, and passing “console=\/dev\/ttyS0” to the kernel, things work.<\/p>\n

So the T1000 firmware 6.3 doesn’t work with modern debian kernels. Thing swork with 6.7 though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So i got the T1000 working again (finally, after much screwing about trying to get the part). I then hit the ever annoying “no console” problem, where the console didn’t work – kind of problematic. 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