On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
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> On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 00:38 -0400, Jeremy Leonard wrote:
> > I have installed Debian on my Ultra 1 with a UltraSparc 1 CPU. This is
> > the first time I've ever had any success in getting any linux distro
> > installed over the past 3 years! Wow, did it take a while!
> >
> > I do have one issue I don't believe is related to the patches.
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> FWIW, the patches are not part of Debian yet. They have all been tested
> out of tree.
>
Yep,
I was hoping to verify the patches on UltraSPARC I
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> > I can boot to Grub but grub fails to boot.
> >
> > Can't read disk label.
> > Can't open disk label package
>
> Can you take a screenshot of this?
>
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Here is a log of the boot process:
Along with some output of probe-scsi and devalias
The end of the log the system just seems hung. I left it overnight and
nothing more was presented on the screen.
Sun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 143MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.11, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #8213958.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:7d:55:c6, Host ID: 807d55c6.
Initializing Memory
ok probe-scsi-all
/sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk ZULUSCSIHARDDRIVE 2.0
Target 5
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device ZULUSCSICDROM 2.0
Target 6
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA XM-5401TASUN4XCD3485
ok devalias
screen /sbus@1f,0/cgsix@2,0
cdrom5 /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@5,0
net-aui /sbus/ledma@e,8400010:aui/le@e,8c00000
net-tpe /sbus/ledma@e,8400010:tpe/le@e,8c00000
net /sbus/ledma@e,8400010/le@e,8c00000
disk /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@0,0
cdrom /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@6,0:f
tape /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/st@4,0
tape1 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/st@5,0
tape0 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/st@4,0
disk6 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@6,0
disk5 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@5,0
disk4 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@4,0
disk3 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@3,0
disk2 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@2,0
disk1 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@1,0
disk0 /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@0,0
scsi /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000
floppy /sbus/SUNW,fdtwo
ttyb /sbus/zs@f,1100000:b
ttya /sbus/zs@f,1100000:a
keyboard! /sbus/zs@f,1000000:forcemode
keyboard /sbus/zs@f,1000000
name aliases
boot disk
Boot device: /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@0,0 File and args:
GRUB Loading kernel..
Welcome to GRUB!
error: out of memory.
error: no suitable video mode found.
GNU GRUB version 2.12-9
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
Press enter to boot the selected OS, `e' to edit the commands
before booting or `c' for a command-line.
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
error: unable to open /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fdtwo@f,1400000.
> I would suggest raising this question on the grub-devel mailing list as
> I have also observed a similar problem with QEMU.
>
> Installing works, but booting the installed system with GRUB doesn't
> work. No idea yet what the problem is.
>
> > I'm still looking for a solution to this but haven't found it yet.
> > Any pointers here would be appreciated. I did boot into the rescue
> > CD from Debian and updated GRUB2 and reinstall it. That didn't seem
> > to help. The partition table type on my disk is sun and I do have
> > the sparc64-ieee1275 modules for grub installed.
>
> I don't know yet. This needs to be investigated by a GRUB developer.
>
> > Once I overcome this grub hurdle is there any process I should run to
> > more thoroughly test this install? Something that would stress test
> > these new patches explicitly? Are there any stats or other info from
> > this system that would be helpful with validating this is working
> properly now?
>
> You would need to install my test kernel first before stress-testing:
>
I used this link for the install ISO. I assumed this already had the
patched kernel:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-08-29/debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
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> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/
>
> Adrian
>
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