Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Hi, Yesterday, 21 hours, 3 minutes, 57 seconds ago, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img MD5: da03e8b5b6a1bfd577a29aef14d26dd4 The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for the hard drive (`esp'). Actually, this installer has a couple of other problems. It was unable to properly finish the base install because some packages, namely `dash', `cramfsprogs' and `initrd-tools', could not be authenticated. I installed them by hand using `apt-install -y --force-yes' but then, for some reason, it was unable to install SILO. I finally went on with the latest Sarge installer, with a 2.4 kernel, and everything went fine: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/20050305/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img MD5: 87517ffdb910a83c848f4c9b6f75cc39 Thanks, Ludovic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for the hard drive (`esp'). Could you send the output of 'prtconf' (from package sparc-utils) please? pgppPfAxAksEQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
On Sunday 08 January 2006 15:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Actually, this installer has a couple of other problems. It was unable to properly finish the base install because some packages, namely `dash', `cramfsprogs' and `initrd-tools', could not be authenticated. I installed them by hand using `apt-install -y --force-yes' but then, for some reason, it was unable to install SILO. This is a known issue because the archive GPG key was updated recently. It is documented on [1] and this should be fixed as soon as a new version of apt makes it into testing. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday pgpnzkJEn3tqQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Today, 38 minutes, 0 second ago, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for the hard drive (`esp'). Could you send the output of 'prtconf' (from package sparc-utils) please? Here it is: System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4m Memory size: 128 Megabytes System Peripherals (Software Nodes): SUNW,SPARCstation-20 packages (driver probably installed) disk-label (driver probably installed) deblocker (driver probably installed) obp-tftp (driver probably installed) options (driver probably installed) aliases (driver probably installed) openprom (driver probably installed) iommu (driver probably installed) sbus (driver probably installed) espdma (driver probably installed) esp (driver probably installed) sd (driver probably installed) st (driver probably installed) ledma (driver probably installed) le (driver probably installed) SUNW,bpp (driver probably installed) SUNW,DBRIe (driver probably installed) cgsix (driver probably installed) obio (driver probably installed) zs (driver probably installed) zs (driver probably installed) eeprom (driver probably installed) counter (driver probably installed) interrupt (driver probably installed) SUNW,fdtwo (driver probably installed) auxio (driver probably installed) power (driver probably installed) memory (driver probably installed) virtual-memory (driver probably installed) eccmemctl (driver probably installed) SUNW,sx (driver probably installed) TI,TMS390Z50 (driver probably installed) TI,TMS390Z50 (driver probably installed) SUNW,nvone (driver probably installed) Thanks, Ludo'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it. During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection phases. Some basic questions: - is the scsi controller on pci or sbus - if on pci, what is the output from 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' - if on sbus, what is the output of prtconf - what kernel driver module is needed for the scsi controller - does the scsi disk get recognized if you modprobe that module manually pgp3xiIPQyPUm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Hi. The SS20 is the latest 32bit Sparc workstation - max. 2 CPU modules, up to 4 CPUs. No PCI, it's SBUS based. On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:44, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it. During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection phases. Some basic questions: - is the scsi controller on pci or sbus - if on pci, what is the output from 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' - if on sbus, what is the output of prtconf - what kernel driver module is needed for the scsi controller - does the scsi disk get recognized if you modprobe that module manually Up to now, I did all my SS20 installations via external SCSI CDROM. I recently bougth an SS20 with two 150 MHz CPUs. I did not install Debian yet. Still on my to-do-list. If you still have trouble: which bootimage (URL)? I can try to check it for you. I have a local netboot-server which works fine with Sun Ultra and SGI Indy. I think I'll be able to add Sun32 support. Regards, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Today, one hour, 12 minutes, 49 seconds ago, Frans Pop wrote: During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection phases. Ok, I guess I was too impatient. ;-) It turns out that I needed the `esp' module. The drive is a Conner CFP1080E on SBus. The installation is on its way now. Thanks for your quick answer! Ludovic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 16:44 schrieb Frans Pop: On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it. Try the following: Alt+F2 Enter modprobe the module for the controlle (IRRC it's called esp). During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection phases. Some basic questions: - is the scsi controller on pci or sbus - if on pci, what is the output from 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' The SS20 has not PCI bus, only SBUS. - if on sbus, what is the output of prtconf - what kernel driver module is needed for the scsi controller - does the scsi disk get recognized if you modprobe that module manually That's probably because the controller is not detected. HS
Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Today, 34 minutes, 3 seconds ago, Hartwig Atrops wrote: If you still have trouble: which bootimage (URL)? I can try to check it for you. I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img MD5: da03e8b5b6a1bfd577a29aef14d26dd4 The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for the hard drive (`esp'). Thanks, Ludovic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
