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Various details on Ultra 4
I want to install a clean debian or ubuntu on my Ultra 4, and I've been googling quite a bit to find out how. But I'm still missing a few pieces of information. I know there's a serial port - but I...
chirpa wrote: Serial is acting as Console Redirection. So via serial you can get into the BIOS. Though some models hard-code boot order and won't let you modify. In that cause, you'll want to bootstrap the 128MB flash, that will be boot device, then point your images at the disks.
Actually, I'm looking into building an emdebian recovery system that I'll place in flash, and boot from that. Once things seem bootable, it'll try to kexec onwards to the "proper" filesystem on raid.
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