Re: u5/u10 install issues

2005-07-11 Thread Jurij Smakov

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Sam Creasey wrote:


Partition check:
hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 8

and so on for all of the even sectors it attempts to read.


Could you please try the unofficial iso linked from

http://wiki.debian.net/?SparcInstallationNotes

It includes all IDE drivers as modules, it might help with your problems.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: u5/u10 install issues

2005-07-11 Thread kwy
I also have the same problem on my ultra 5. Fortunately, it can start
up and run as usual. Everytime I startup the machine, I get the same
error.

Sam Creasey wrote:

> Partition check:
>  hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 8
> 
> and so on for all of the even sectors it attempts to read.
>


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Re: u5/u10 install issues

2005-07-11 Thread foo_bar_baz_boo-deb
Try using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=1 to erase the Sun
disk label inside the installer's spare command line console, then use
parted to recreate it. Then reboot.

Don't do this if you need things on the drive of course.

--- Sam Creasey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> (first off, I apologize if this has become a FAQ, but I'l a little
> frustrated, so I figured I might as well try the list).
> 
> I'm having some difficulty installing debian onto my Ultra 5.  It
> seems
> that the kernel has some issue reading from an internal IDE disk
> (this
> first manifests itself when trying to read the partition tables at
> boot:)
> 
> CMD646: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:03.0
> CMD646: chipset revision 3
> CMD646: chipset revision 0x03, MultiWord DMA Force Limited
> CMD646: 100% native mode on irq 4,7e0
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00020-0x1fe02c00027, BIOS settings:
> hda:pio,
> hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00028-0x1fe02c0002f, BIOS settings:
> hdc:pio,
> hdd:pio
> hda: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> hdc: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1fe02c0-0x1fe02c7,0x1fe02ca on irq 4,7e0
> ide1 at 0x1fe02c00010-0x1fe02c00017,0x1fe02c0001a on irq 4,7e0
> (shared
> with ide0)
> Partition check:
>  hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 8
> 
> and so on for all of the even sectors it attempts to read.
> 
> I've tried booting the installer on both an Ultra 5 and an Ultra 10,
> using
> 2 different IDE cables, and 2 different drives on both systems. 
> Results
> are identical.
> 
> Oddly, the system seems to be able to write to the drive (the
> installer
> seems to be able to create and mount a filesystem), and even seems to
> install, but, on the next boot (not surprisingly), it's unable to
> read the
> partition table and won't boot.
> 
> I've tried this with 3.1r0a, testing, and unstable.  Results are
> (again) identical.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- Sam
> 
> 
> 
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Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread foo_bar_baz_boo-deb
No big deal. Eat the disk label by using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd??
count=1 bs=1M in the installer's spare command console; then recreate
it with the parted partition editor.

This should fix any inaccuracies in the label.

Unfortunately Suns are dumb and treat the label as gospel no matter how
moronic the contents. One system I had with a bad disk label just
dumped me into X without a window manager with one terminal tool window
when I tried to install Solaris 10. Could not even have fixed it
without SPARC Linux! 

--- Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Has anyone had success with a Sarge/Solaris dual boot?  I did this
> with Woody (or possibly earlier), but I can't now partition a disk
> which Solaris is happy with.
> 
> I've tried installing Solaris (10) first, and Debian first, but it
> seems that whenever fdisk, parted, or whatever it is that the
> installer uses, touches the disk, it clobbers it and the Solaris boot
> or install won't use it.  I think I've had different reports from
> Solaris, depending on what I did, but an example is:
> 
> WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 
> (sd0):
> Corrupt label - bad geometry
> 
> Label says 71133184 blocks; Drive says 71132959 blocks
> 
> I was wondering whether it was worth trying to build an old fdisk
> and,
> if so, which version to go for.
> 
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Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Snodgrass
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:34:52PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote:
> I've had no end of trouble with SILO and RAID-1.  On my first few
> attempts to install Debian on the Netra, I ran into what I thought was a
> bug in silo.c, and hacking around with it produced varying degrees of
> success.  As far as I can tell, the problem resulted from trying to
> install the boot block for a degraded /boot array (only /dev/sdb1
> active).
> 
> Anyway, using the method I described in my previous post, the SILO
> installation worked fine.  I can boot from disk0:3 or disk1:3, which is
> what I wanted all along (the system can completely survive the loss of
> one disk).
> 
> S.

I manually got a pair of RAID-1 devices and some LVM configured, finally.
I had two small partitions for /boot (sda1/b1 = md0), and two more for
the logical volumes (md1).  I tricked d-i into using them (I honestly
don't even recall now how I did that), and it installed the base system
onto my new filesystems.  Even SILO was quite happy to use the RAID
device; I was able to 'boot disk0' or 'boot disk1' from OBP with
identical results.  However, the new setup absolutely will *not*
complete a boot.

Boot process proceeds until it's time to detect and mount the LV's; I
get dozens of devfs errors:

devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to
parent for /disc

then the system attempts to proceed, seems mostly okay, then init shuts
down my serial console with "/bin/sh: line 1: /dev/pts/0: No such file
or directory".  I have to manually power cycle the box, as it won't even
let me send a break to return to OBP.  Ugh.

I'll try your suggestion next, probably tomorrow.

-- 
Adam
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RE: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Pete Clarke
#I believe a version of parted had this as a bug, but can't remember which
one.

I re-partitioned the disc using Solaris, then installed preserving slice 3
(whole disc)..this appears to have worked a treat!

I am now happily installing Sarge on the Netra..

Cheers,



Pete.



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Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Biddell


> Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Probably the obvious answer, but Solaris and Sarge on separate drives ?
> 
> Sorry, no -- the system disk.  It would be a pain to use an external
> scsi drive on the systems of interest, but openboot doesn't seem happy
> with that anyway, either on ultra 5+scsi card or v210.  (Is that
> really the case, or am I doing something wrong?)
> 

My only experience is with a SparStation5 (seriously OLD) and a SunBlade
1000 - both backines have 2 x drives internally, so it's a simple matter
of installing each OS on its' own volume...:-)

I seem to remember booting the SparcStation from an external SCSI drive,
but must admit I haven't tried the 'blade that way yet (on the list to
try this weekend !)

Jon


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Re: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Biddell


> > Undr Solaris, partition (or "slice") 3 covers the whole disk and isn't
> > used
> > for anything else, AFAIK. Delete this, reset the CHS settings, write the
> > partition table back to disk, re-run FDISK and create your partitions.
> >
> > If you create one large partition, mount it and do a "df -h" you should
> > see
> > whatever the total capacity of the drive is.
> >
> > Note: partition 3 must be of the type Sun Disklabel (option "s" in
FDISK).
> >
> > Note 2: Don't hold me responsible if you nuke your system doing this
- it
> > worked for me, your mileage may vary.
> 
> I erased the entire disc and attempted to partition as I would for my x86
> boxen...
> I must admit that I didn't alter any CHS info, just simply ran the
> installer and erased the entire disc.
> Funny thing is, the partitioner saw the whole disc, but when creating the
> partions it only saw 540mb.

I believe a version of parted had this as a bug, but can't remember
which one.

Jon


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Re: Elite 3D color alteration.

2005-07-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Aurelien Larcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:09:21 +0200

> I'm confused ... I should have RTFMed a lot more.
> I've discover that mplayer provide an option to swap Red
> and Blue.
> I'm going to ask the mplayer team if the option could be enabled by
> default for the elite 3d (is it reasonable ?) but by the way you can
> specify the option :
> mplayer -vf rgb2bgr=swap
> (I hope this hint can save time for other people facing this issue)
> I fear/'m pleased I have a lot more to learn concerning Linux and the
> Sun hardware ;)

The RGB ordering of the frame buffer can be portably
determined by asking the X server using one of the
standard X library calls from the application.


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u5/u10 install issues

2005-07-11 Thread Sam Creasey

(first off, I apologize if this has become a FAQ, but I'l a little
frustrated, so I figured I might as well try the list).

I'm having some difficulty installing debian onto my Ultra 5.  It seems
that the kernel has some issue reading from an internal IDE disk (this
first manifests itself when trying to read the partition tables at boot:)

CMD646: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:03.0
CMD646: chipset revision 3
CMD646: chipset revision 0x03, MultiWord DMA Force Limited
CMD646: 100% native mode on irq 4,7e0
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00020-0x1fe02c00027, BIOS settings: hda:pio,
hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02c00028-0x1fe02c0002f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio,
hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hdc: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1fe02c0-0x1fe02c7,0x1fe02ca on irq 4,7e0
ide1 at 0x1fe02c00010-0x1fe02c00017,0x1fe02c0001a on irq 4,7e0 (shared
with ide0)
Partition check:
 hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 8

and so on for all of the even sectors it attempts to read.

I've tried booting the installer on both an Ultra 5 and an Ultra 10, using
2 different IDE cables, and 2 different drives on both systems.  Results
are identical.

Oddly, the system seems to be able to write to the drive (the installer
seems to be able to create and mount a filesystem), and even seems to
install, but, on the next boot (not surprisingly), it's unable to read the
partition table and won't boot.

I've tried this with 3.1r0a, testing, and unstable.  Results are
(again) identical.

Any ideas?

-- Sam




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Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread Martin
> > Probably the obvious answer, but Solaris and Sarge on separate drives ?
> 
> Sorry, no -- the system disk.  It would be a pain to use an external
> scsi drive on the systems of interest, but openboot doesn't seem happy
> with that anyway, either on ultra 5+scsi card or v210.  (Is that
> really the case, or am I doing something wrong?)
If OpenBoot is aware of the controller that the external disk is
attached to you should be able to boot off it with the right
incantation.  Awareness requires OpenBoot drivers for the device and /
or OpenBoot firmware on the card.  Thus, althought Linux can use generic
PCI SCSI / graphics / USB / ATA cards, getting the machine to boot off
them may be much harder.

HTH

Cheers,
 - Martin



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Re: Elite 3D color alteration.

2005-07-11 Thread Aurelien Larcher
Hi,
I'm confused ... I should have RTFMed a lot more.
I've discover that mplayer provide an option to swap Red
and Blue.
I'm going to ask the mplayer team if the option could be enabled by
default for the elite 3d (is it reasonable ?) but by the way you can
specify the option :
mplayer -vf rgb2bgr=swap
(I hope this hint can save time for other people facing this issue)
I fear/'m pleased I have a lot more to learn concerning Linux and the
Sun hardware ;)
Thanks again.
kind regards,

Aurelien

David S. Miller wrote:

>From: Aurelien Larcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:42:43 +0200
>
>  
>
>>indeed the colordepth doesn't matter (I tested from 8bits to 24bits)
>>and it seems that red and blue are swapped with mplayer.
>>with vlc colors are right but regarding the cpu load it seems that this
>>player
>>uses software rendering rather than my card.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, there is no hardware acceleration for movie rendering
>on the elite3d card.
>
>  
>
>>What should I do ? Is there something I can change to correct the rgb
>>order ?
>>(Is that the "colormap" I found in the web ?)
>>
>>
>
>mplayer needs to have the bug fixed, that's all.
>
>
>  
>



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Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Simon Heywood
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:58:09 -0500, Adam Snodgrass wrote:
> Is SILO aware of RAID or LVM?  I guess I could go back and blow all this
> stuff away and create a non-RAID, non-LVM partition at the start of both
> disks for /boot; suboptimal but I guess I'll take what I can get.

I've had no end of trouble with SILO and RAID-1.  On my first few
attempts to install Debian on the Netra, I ran into what I thought was a
bug in silo.c, and hacking around with it produced varying degrees of
success.  As far as I can tell, the problem resulted from trying to
install the boot block for a degraded /boot array (only /dev/sdb1
active).

Anyway, using the method I described in my previous post, the SILO
installation worked fine.  I can boot from disk0:3 or disk1:3, which is
what I wanted all along (the system can completely survive the loss of
one disk).

S.


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kernel booting

2005-07-11 Thread Tib

So I installed woody onto my blade and it boots to a 2.4.18 kernel with no
problems. I figured I'd try something more recent - or at least something
that could do smp. Grabbed the 2.4.27 kernel package and installed it.
Here's the question: would an initrd dependant kernel be what's causing
the system to freeze on boot after the 'remapping the kernel' part?

I'm curious now because the 2.4.18 kernel is not an initrd style kernel,
but the 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 are - and both of those freeze after loading.

My silo.conf entries are as follows:

image=2/vmlinuz
  read-only
  label=linux
image=2/vmlinuz-2.4-smp
  read-only
  label=linux-2.4
  initrd=2/initrd-2.4.img
image=2/vmlinuz-2.6-smp
  read-only
  label=linux-2.6
  initrd=2/initrd-2.6.img


The first is the 2.4.18 kernel and works fine. The other two I had to
manually create, modeled after my pc lilo.conf and when running silo it
says things are kosher, and at boot it pulls up the images - but hangs
after 'remapping the kernel'.


Tib


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Re: blade 1000 X config

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
> In any case - my issue now (since I picked the ffb graphics driver) is
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Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Snodgrass
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:27:52PM +0100, Simon Heywood wrote:
> I seem to remember (maybe from a previous thread on this list) that the
> RAID features of the Debian-Installer don't work on SPARC machines.
> I've certainly not been able to do that on my Netra T1 105.  However, a
> RAID-1 + LVM set-up is both possible and fairly easy to achieve.  You
> just need the benefit of hindsight. :-)

After alot of fiddling around, I think I've managed to manually build
both the RAID-1 device and LVM VG and LV's that I wanted to create.  I
ended up modifying the filter in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf from the d-i shell,
so that it would ignore the physical disks.  Even with that, I had to
run vgcreate twice to finally get anything out of it.  (note: still
getting errors about fsync failing for /etc/lvm/backup, but I totally
ignored any and all such errors).

I went back to the d-i partioner menu, and finally it was showing my
LV's in the list.  There is still some underlying problem however, as it
kept insisting I had made and needed to commit some change to the RAID
device; when I let it do so, it then complained that the change was not
accepted and a reboot would be required.  I ignored this and proceeded.

Back at the main d-i menu I instructed it to install the base system,
which it seems to have done without incident.  I am now however stuck
trying to get SILO functional.  Attempting this from the d-i menu
resulted in a nice little message stating an error had occured (no
details given).

So, manually, from the shell:

~ # /target/sbin/silo -r /target
/etc/silo.conf appears to be valid
Fatal error: Couldn't find out what device is second stage on

Is SILO aware of RAID or LVM?  I guess I could go back and blow all this
stuff away and create a non-RAID, non-LVM partition at the start of both
disks for /boot; suboptimal but I guess I'll take what I can get.

Of course, even if I can make SILO happy, the bootup might still fail;
if so, I think I'll try the method you suggested next.

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Re: debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Simon Heywood
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:53:55 -0500, Adam Snodgrass wrote:
> I've been trying unsuccessfully for days now to install Debian onto a
> U30 with 2x 9GB Cheetahs using RAID+LVM.  (FWIW, a "normal" install
> works fine).  The major problem is that, no matter which version
> (stable, testing, testing daily image) of the DebianInstaller I use,
> it *refuses* to permit me to create any RAID devices.

I seem to remember (maybe from a previous thread on this list) that the
RAID features of the Debian-Installer don't work on SPARC machines.
I've certainly not been able to do that on my Netra T1 105.  However, a
RAID-1 + LVM set-up is both possible and fairly easy to achieve.  You
just need the benefit of hindsight. :-)

Root on LVM on RAID-1 is slightly harder, but I believe it's possible.
I opted for the simpler arrangement of having my root partition on a
plain RAID-1 array and a separate RAID-1 array containing various LVM
volumes.  I might get round to writing a Web page about it at some
point, but here's the gist of it.

1. Boot the 2.6 Debian-Installer image over the network and install a
minimal system on /dev/sdb.

2. Boot to the new installation and partition and partition /dev/sda
like this:

Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 17849 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device FlagStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
   /dev/sda1 1   523   4192965   fd  Linux raid autodetect
   /dev/sda2   523   654   1052257+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
   /dev/sda3 0 17849 143372092+   5  Whole disk
   /dev/sda4   654 17849 138118837+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

Note that the first partition starts at cylinder 1.  This is to leave
room for the Sun disk label and bootloader.

3. Install Sarge onto an ext3 filesystem in /dev/sda4.  Don't bother
with swap.

4. Boot to this installation ('boot disk0:3' at the OpenBootPROM prompt)
and set things up as desired.  Install lvm2 and mdadm (removing
/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf).  Build a custom kernel (non-initrd is much
easier) that supports RAID-1 and LVM.  Repartition /dev/sdb to match
/dev/sda, and correct the partition types for /dev/sda.  Reboot.

5. Create RAID-1 arrays: /dev/md0 = /dev/sda1 + /dev/sdb1, /dev/md1 =
/dev/sda2 + /dev/sdb2.  Create an ext3 filesystem in /dev/md0 and create
a swap area in /dev/md1.  Mount /dev/md0 somewhere and copy your root
filesystem there ('cp -ax / /mnt).  Edit /mnt/etc/fstab, and add an
entry to /etc/silo.conf with /dev/md0 as the root filesystem (and
everything else unchanged).  Reboot and select this new boot entry.

6. You should now have /dev/md0 mounted as root.  Complete the root
filesystem switch by editing /etc/silo.conf accordingly, and running
silo.  You may be able to acheive the same effect by running 'silo -r
/mnt' in the previous step.  Add /dev/md1 as swap in /etc/fstab.  Reboot
and make sure everything works.  Convince yourself that you're booting
with the SILO configuration file in /dev/md0, not the one in /dev/sda4.

7. Create the final RAID-1 array (/dev/md2 = /dev/sda4 + /dev/sdb4).
Set it up as an LVM volume group ('pvcreate /dev/md2; vgcreate /dev/md2)
and create whatever logical volumes you wish.

Of course, there's nothing to stop you from putting your swap partition
on LVM.  And as I said before, I believe it's possible to have your root
partition on LVM; you just need to be careful.  Finally, this reply may
not solve your problem at all, but if it helps someone else to achieve
what I spent a few weeks scratching my head over then all is not lost.
:-)

S.


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Re: blade 1000 X config

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dave Love wrote:

> > I'm not familiar with either X or the blade's hardware.. I've always just
> > run linux as an ssh/terminal host.
> >
> > Which should I use - or how should I check to see which is installed, I do
> > have access to tty2 during this process to run commands from a shell?
>
> I'm not sure what you're asking.  If you're talking about a blade
> 1000, I assume the keyboard is USB, and the kernel in use is clear.

I got past the graphics driver part.. someone in another forum mentioned
using the ffb driver for blade 1k's.

> If you have a messed-up keyboard, the solution is to get in via ssh
> (if it's set up) or the serial port (if that's set up).  If you
> installed via the console, I think the serial port gets set up as a
> login tty.

No - it's not the keyboard that's messed up. It runs just dandy until you
get past the locale selection and pick your language preference - then
suddely everything is mapped wrong and on the sarge installer I didn't see
a way to pick a literal keyboard map, just a region/language specification
- which you would think american english responses to those questions
would read it right. But this only happened with the 2.4 tftpboot.img
install of sarge and woody, the 2.6 boot sarge image had no such issues.

> I think you do `dpkg-reconfigure console-data' to change the keymap.
> Check the installation instructions, where I think it's mentioned.

Wasn't far enough in the install to do it before, but now that I've got
woody actually up and running I was able to pick a direct keyboard map
rather than just locale information for it to decide which map to use.



In any case - my issue now (since I picked the ffb graphics driver) is
which keyboard to tell x I'm using? The option for 'sun' was in there, but
said to use that if you have a 1.4 or 1.5 type keyboard.. this is a 1.6.
So do I say 'xfree86' instead and pick a pc104 or 101 or something
instead?


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Re: blade 1000 X config

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'm not familiar with either X or the blade's hardware.. I've always just
> run linux as an ssh/terminal host.
>
> Which should I use - or how should I check to see which is installed, I do
> have access to tty2 during this process to run commands from a shell?

I'm not sure what you're asking.  If you're talking about a blade
1000, I assume the keyboard is USB, and the kernel in use is clear.

If you have a messed-up keyboard, the solution is to get in via ssh
(if it's set up) or the serial port (if that's set up).  If you
installed via the console, I think the serial port gets set up as a
login tty.

I think you do `dpkg-reconfigure console-data' to change the keymap.
Check the installation instructions, where I think it's mentioned.


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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This only happened ONCE for me. I thought I was going to get a heart
> attach! :)

For what it's worth, another way to get into the catatonic state is
with stop-A during reboot -- not exactly sure at what stage.  I've
seen it on a blade 100 and, I think, on v210.


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Re: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> P.S. Anyone know what keyboard type to use for a Type 6 SUN keyboard ?

It depends on the kernel and the type of type 6.  Some are USB and
some have the type 5-type connector.  For a 2.6 kernel, you need pc104
(?) -- see the install instructions, I think.  Otherwise, for a USB
one, I think you need `mac usb' with the appropriate localization.  It
might help if that was documented somewhere.

You don't get all the Sun keys, though, at least with a 2.6 kernel.
I'd be interested in a recipe to get the extra keys on a type 6 set up
correctly, e.g. the L1 keys and Compose don't work for me, and I think
meta and alt are swapped from the default in Woody.  I assume it's not
difficult to figure out the relevant keymap entries, but maybe someone
has already done that.


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Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Probably the obvious answer, but Solaris and Sarge on separate drives ?

Sorry, no -- the system disk.  It would be a pain to use an external
scsi drive on the systems of interest, but openboot doesn't seem happy
with that anyway, either on ultra 5+scsi card or v210.  (Is that
really the case, or am I doing something wrong?)


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blade 1000 X config

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
I'm not familiar with either X or the blade's hardware.. I've always just
run linux as an ssh/terminal host.

Which should I use - or how should I check to see which is installed, I do
have access to tty2 during this process to run commands from a shell?


Tib


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Re: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Jurij Smakov

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Peter Clarke wrote:


I erased the entire disc and attempted to partition as I would for my x86
boxen...
I must admit that I didn't alter any CHS info, just simply ran the
installer and erased the entire disc.
Funny thing is, the partitioner saw the whole disc, but when creating the
partions it only saw 540mb.

I will have another go later on..

Cheers


Hi Peter,

There were some reports of partman misdetecting the sizes of the disk, 
I've encountered cases myself a couple of times, however we were never 
able to track down the reason for it. However, the creation of a new Sun 
disklabel from partman usually seems to help. To create it, highlight the 
name of the disk in the main partman screen and press Enter.


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Re: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Clarke
> Undr Solaris, partition (or "slice") 3 covers the whole disk and isn't
> used
> for anything else, AFAIK. Delete this, reset the CHS settings, write the
> partition table back to disk, re-run FDISK and create your partitions.
>
> If you create one large partition, mount it and do a "df -h" you should
> see
> whatever the total capacity of the drive is.
>
> Note: partition 3 must be of the type Sun Disklabel (option "s" in FDISK).
>
> Note 2: Don't hold me responsible if you nuke your system doing this - it
> worked for me, your mileage may vary.

I erased the entire disc and attempted to partition as I would for my x86
boxen...
I must admit that I didn't alter any CHS info, just simply ran the
installer and erased the entire disc.
Funny thing is, the partitioner saw the whole disc, but when creating the
partions it only saw 540mb.

I will have another go later on..

Cheers


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Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Biddell
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:16, Dave Love wrote:
> Has anyone had success with a Sarge/Solaris dual boot?  I did this
> with Woody (or possibly earlier), but I can't now partition a disk
> which Solaris is happy with.

Probably the obvious answer, but Solaris and Sarge on separate drives ?


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Re: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Biddell
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:07, Peter Clarke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a (couple of) Netra T1 105's, 440Mhz/512MB.
> Both have 2 x 36gb SCSI discs.
>
> When installing and running Solaris, all discs are recognised properly,
> when installing Sarge from the latest netinst image, only 540MB of each
> discs appears usable!
>
> Incidently this was also the case when attempting to install on an Ultra60
> (2 x 18gb) and an Ultra10 (both IDE and via SCSI card) ... in all cases
> the installer would only see about 540mb.

I had the same problem when installing Debian on the SunBlade 1000 - one of my 
73Gb drives kept comming up as 18Gb !!!

After much yelling and screaming at Crappaq (it was a Compaq OEM drive, 
manufactured by Seagate), I finally got the CHS settings (cylinders, heads, 
sectors) from Seagate (very helpful guys, unlike HP/Compaq !)

When I used FDISK to change these settings, I couldn't get the drive to hold 
them after a reboot. Much scratching of various bodily surfaces ensued, until 
I realised that the solution is reasonably simple.

Undr Solaris, partition (or "slice") 3 covers the whole disk and isn't used 
for anything else, AFAIK. Delete this, reset the CHS settings, write the 
partition table back to disk, re-run FDISK and create your partitions.

If you create one large partition, mount it and do a "df -h" you should see 
whatever the total capacity of the drive is.

Note: partition 3 must be of the type Sun Disklabel (option "s" in FDISK).

Note 2: Don't hold me responsible if you nuke your system doing this - it 
worked for me, your mileage may vary.

Jon

P.S. Anyone know what keyboard type to use for a Type 6 SUN keyboard ?


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partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Has anyone had success with a Sarge/Solaris dual boot?  I did this
with Woody (or possibly earlier), but I can't now partition a disk
which Solaris is happy with.

I've tried installing Solaris (10) first, and Debian first, but it
seems that whenever fdisk, parted, or whatever it is that the
installer uses, touches the disk, it clobbers it and the Solaris boot
or install won't use it.  I think I've had different reports from
Solaris, depending on what I did, but an example is:

WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 (sd0):
Corrupt label - bad geometry

Label says 71133184 blocks; Drive says 71132959 blocks

I was wondering whether it was worth trying to build an old fdisk and,
if so, which version to go for.


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Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Clarke
Hi all,

I have a (couple of) Netra T1 105's, 440Mhz/512MB.
Both have 2 x 36gb SCSI discs.

When installing and running Solaris, all discs are recognised properly,
when installing Sarge from the latest netinst image, only 540MB of each
discs appears usable!

Incidently this was also the case when attempting to install on an Ultra60
(2 x 18gb) and an Ultra10 (both IDE and via SCSI card) ... in all cases
the installer would only see about 540mb.

All OBP versions are latest.

Any idea as to why this should be? A quick Google was fruitless..

Cheers4


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debianinstaller root+raid+lvm on U30

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Snodgrass
Hi,

I've been trying unsuccessfully for days now to install Debian onto a
U30 with 2x 9GB Cheetahs using RAID+LVM.  (FWIW, a "normal" install
works fine).  The major problem is that, no matter which version
(stable, testing, testing daily image) of the DebianInstaller I use,
it *refuses* to permit me to create any RAID devices.

According to documentation I've read, one must first create a partition
and mark it as "Linux RAID autodetect"; however, the partitioner has NO
such option available.  All I am presented with are:

Ext3 journaling file system
Ext2 file system
ReiserFS journaling file system
XFS journaling file system
FAT16 file system
FAT32 file system
swap area
physical volume for LVM
do not use the partition

I've even gone so far as to exit to a shell and manually run parted;
the only flags it lets you set are root/boot/lvm.  (On a side note,
why would I be limited to creating RAID devices from partitions?  It's
trivial to use the entire disk, as I'd just done that previously on
another system.)  I've tried creating a partition on each disk and
marking it for LVM, but still no dice.

I've also tried manually creating the RAID and LVM stuff from a shell.
First of course I used mdadm to build the RAID1 device; no trouble
there.  I then returned to the menu to create my LVM volume groups;
it let me select /dev/md/0 and seemed to create my VG
(translation: no obvious error messages).  The installer then
told me there were no volume groups created when I went to create
logical volumes.

I also tried creating all the LVM stuff manually from the shell, but I
get weird results.  After pvcreate /dev/md/0, pvdisplay shows only the
first physical disk from my RAID set.  Undaunted, I then built my volume
group, telling it to use /dev/md/0.  I got back:

/etc/lvm/backup: fsync failed: Invalid argument
Volume group "vg00" successfully created

Subseuqently calling vgdisplay returned nothing at all.  (Confirmed by
returning to the installer, which also sees no LVM VG's/LV's).

Any suggestions?  Is root+RAID+LVM just not possible with this installer?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.


[note] Desired layout is both disks as RAID1, with LVM VG on top of
   that; filesystems would be built on the LV's.  I wouldn't be
   against keeping a small boot partition open at the start of
   both disks to make SILO happier, if needed.

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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> No dice - I had thought the same thing and after letting it sit off for
> about 10 mins powered it on.
>
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dave Love wrote:
>
>> Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just
>> > stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead
>> > in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long
>> > while in case it was just chugging through all that memory. I don't know
>> > what to do.
>>
>> This sounds the same as the problems I've been reporting on recently
>> with a v210.  Perhaps it will come up after a power cycle.

This only happened ONCE for me. I thought I was going to get a heart
attach! :)

Power cyckling (disconnecting the powercord etc) a couple of times made MINE
go up as it was supposed to...
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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Tib wrote:

> So I'm trying to install woody right now from the main debian site instead
> of sarge, so far so good (and thankfully avoiding the pitfall of keyboard
> problems). If the 2.6 kernel is faster, I'd certainly like to try it but I
> think I may wait until I can build my own and get SMP running as well.


*drumroll please!* It's up! Sarge isn't too friendly with sparcs.. well it
may have been if there were an easier way to fix the keyboard mapping
problem I ran into earlier, but even there the problem appears to be
trying a 2.6 kernel instead of 2.4. Darn.. I was hoping to get the latest
stuff on this box from the getgo. I'll have to do it later by hand.


Tib


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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
> You will find that running a 2.6 kernel is _a lot_ of hassle! There's 
> something
> with the machine/kernel that makes everything work very irradic. I know, my
> primary server is a SB1k and I've had a lot of strange kernel hangs, krashes
> etc.. Kernel 2.4 actually worked better, although a lot slower. I finally have
> a kernel that seems to work.
>
> You can find the deb package for the kernel at the URL:
>
> ftp://ftp.bayour.com/pub/debian/dists/woody-ol2.2/binary-sparc/Kernel/kernel-image-2.6.12-rc3-sparc64_10.20_sparc.deb

How do I extract a tftpboot image out of the above listed package? I also
notice it's 2.6, were you saying that this 2.6 kernel is one that you
found to work, or that you finally have a 2.4 kernel which appears to
work?

> The TFTP boot image I was using when I installed this machine
> roughly a year ago came from 'phunnypharm.org' (image is made
> by Ben Collins if I'm not misstaken).
>
> You can find that image (as soon as my web directories have
> finished syncing, in a few minutes) at the URL:
>
> http://www.bayour.com/Blade1000/tftpboot_phunnypharm.img
>
>
> Note that this is a woody system, so if you want/need sarge,
> you'll have to do a dist-upgrade when it's finished installing...

I tried working with this one just now, you're right 2.4 is a bit slower
and the installer isn't quite as friendly but so far it's doing alright -
ran into the same problem as earlier where after picking locale it screwed
up my keyboard, but was able to struggle back to a standard setting and
can move forward again. the 2.4 installer for sarge doesn't seem to have a
literal key-map layout you can choose, just regions and then it picks for
you. Then when it came to downloading drivers.tgz and rescue.bin it was
going off an old directory structure I couldn't change..

So I'm trying to install woody right now from the main debian site instead
of sarge, so far so good (and thankfully avoiding the pitfall of keyboard
problems). If the 2.6 kernel is faster, I'd certainly like to try it but I
think I may wait until I can build my own and get SMP running as well.

Thanks for the input!


Tib



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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Tib

No dice - I had thought the same thing and after letting it sit off for
about 10 mins powered it on.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dave Love wrote:

> Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just
> > stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead
> > in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long
> > while in case it was just chugging through all that memory. I don't know
> > what to do.
>
> This sounds the same as the problems I've been reporting on recently
> with a v210.  Perhaps it will come up after a power cycle.
>


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Re: tg3 driver fails

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels/2.6/
>
> Please report back your experiences with it.

I tried it on my Blade 100 as I had to reboot that.  The console and
mouse are broken in the same way as for the 2.6.11 kernel in testing
which I just made a bug report on (#317756).

By the way, for the 2.6.12 kernel under X, mouse clicks actually work,
though there's no pointer.  I don't know if they work with the 2.6.11
as I didn't think to try right-click for the WM menu.


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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I've recently been given a blade 1000 and have been trying to get debian
> installed on it. It didn't like the cd's I made so I'm having to do a
> tftpboot process, which isn't all that bad.
>
> If I try to use the boot.img from:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/current//images/sparc64/netboot/
>
> I can get through the prompts for selecting locale and it does a dhcp
> config. Then when it asks for a hostname the keyboard is completely
> unuseable. I can only guess it didn't actually map to the correct locale.
>
> So I tried the 2.6 boot.img, and can get all the way through installation
> with the only problem being manually telling it to use the qlogicfc module
> instead of qlogicisp. It says it needs to reboot, and does so.
>
> The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just
> stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead
> in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long
> while in case it was just chugging through all that memory. I don't know
> what to do.
>
> I don't know exactly what the processors are, outside of 2 ultrasparc
> III's. Openboot is v4.0, and there's 8gigs of memory installed.
>
> Anyone know what I can do?

You will find that running a 2.6 kernel is _a lot_ of hassle! There's something
with the machine/kernel that makes everything work very irradic. I know, my
primary server is a SB1k and I've had a lot of strange kernel hangs, krashes
etc.. Kernel 2.4 actually worked better, although a lot slower. I finally have
a kernel that seems to work.

You can find the deb package for the kernel at the URL:

ftp://ftp.bayour.com/pub/debian/dists/woody-ol2.2/binary-sparc/Kernel/kernel-image-2.6.12-rc3-sparc64_10.20_sparc.deb

The TFTP boot image I was using when I installed this machine
roughly a year ago came from 'phunnypharm.org' (image is made
by Ben Collins if I'm not misstaken).

You can find that image (as soon as my web directories have
finished syncing, in a few minutes) at the URL:

http://www.bayour.com/Blade1000/tftpboot_phunnypharm.img


Note that this is a woody system, so if you want/need sarge,
you'll have to do a dist-upgrade when it's finished installing...
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Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just
> stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead
> in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long
> while in case it was just chugging through all that memory. I don't know
> what to do.

This sounds the same as the problems I've been reporting on recently
with a v210.  Perhaps it will come up after a power cycle.


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Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
"David S. Miller"  writes:

> If the upper 32-bits of some parameter we pass in has garbage in
> it, we'll totally die in the firmware.

>From experience reported in my last message, it looks as if this is
specific to the installer (or at least only shows up there for some
reason) and it's leaving some bad state behind, since reset will get
it going after the installation.  Sarge's silo got the system booted
eventually.


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Re: tg3 driver fails

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have built a sparc64 kernel package using the source package from
> the Debian kernel svn repository (revision 3426). It should contain a
> working tg3 driver module and, as DaveM pointed out, you might have
> better luck with it on your machine. You can grab it from

Thanks but, as I either said here or put in the install report, I
couldn't get to the stage of installing a new kernel because the
system wouldn't reboot after the initial installation phase:

  Loaded kernel version 2.6.8
  Loading initial ramdisk (3227648 bytes at 0x1F802000 phys, 0x40C0 virt)...
  |
  Remapping the kernel...  ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Instruction Access MMU 
Miss
  
  Error -256 

However, I've found that I can then get it going by using `reset' in
ALOM (not reset-all in OBP), so I have actually had it running.  It's
not clear what gets it in that state since I could do a reboot
successfully from the fully-installed system.  The OBP version doesn't
seem to be the problem.  I upgraded from the original 4.0.something (I
think), and tried the latest and the older one in the patch.  There
seems to be a fundamental problem here.

I can't test the new kernel just at the moment, but I wouldn't care
too much about the networking since I have an hme card to use.


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