Re: Problems booting Slink
On 16 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: > Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot > floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines > before the SILO line? I'm trying to boot from floppy by typing boot floppy (at the new style prompt) or b floppy (at the old style prompt). In both cases I get the same error message. As you request, here you have a couple of lines before the SILO line: ok boot floppy Boot device: /fd File and args: SILO Fatal eror: Cannot read partition --- or --- > b floppy Boot device: /fd File and args: SILO Fatal error: Cannot read partition Thanks for your interest, Angel
Re: netscape
Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > is there a netscape for sparc linux (slink). How is it to be installed? apt-get install navigator-base-45 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems booting Slink
Angel Martin Alganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun > > disk label? YOu have to do that > > I made my rescue flopy using rawrite2 on a Windows box using the > resc1440.bin floppy image. Unfortunately I don't have another Linux box > around here... > > Sorry the silo documentation in the install manual is weak -- be > > comforted that the x86/lilo documentation is just as week. I suspect > > either a bad disklabel or else a misconfigured silo, which you should > > be able to recover from by putting in the right silo arguments on the > > prompt. > Any suggestions on how to do it? I'm really exited whith the idea on > installing Debian on this box... and am a bit frustrated at the moment for > not being able to start... Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines before the SILO line? Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setserial problems, bug submitted
On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> I've submitted the following bug against setserial. If anyone on this
> list can give more pointers, or clues, or patches, please follow up to
> the bug.
>
> Package: setserial
> Version: 2.14-3
>
> >> 2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with "Cannot autoconfigure port:
> >> Invalid argument" -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not
> >> likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as
> >> in the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for
> >> Sparc?
>
The 0setserial script seems to include the lines:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS0 irq 4 port 0x3F8 skip_test autoconfig \
${STD_FLAGS}
and
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 port 0x2F8 skip_test autoconfig \
${STD_FLAGS}
which probably don't work too well on machines which assign the serial
ports IRQ 12 and addresses 0xffeeb004 and 0xffeeb000. IRQ 3 is, moreover,
already assigned to the SCSI bus. Shouldn't be hard to fix :-)
netscape
Hi, is there a netscape for sparc linux (slink). How is it to be installed? Armin
Re: Problems booting Slink
On 16 Mar 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun > disk label? YOu have to do that I made my rescue flopy using rawrite2 on a Windows box using the resc1440.bin floppy image. Unfortunately I don't have another Linux box around here... > Sorry the silo documentation in the install manual is weak -- be > comforted that the x86/lilo documentation is just as week. I suspect > either a bad disklabel or else a misconfigured silo, which you should > be able to recover from by putting in the right silo arguments on the > prompt. Any suggestions on how to do it? I'm really exited whith the idea on installing Debian on this box... and am a bit frustrated at the moment for not being able to start... Thanks a lot, Angel
Re: Thanks: X works as root, not as user
> "sd" == Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sd> Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Daniel Brosemer wrote: >> >> > > Thanks to all who replied with the /dev/fb0 permissions >> suggestions, I was > able to get X working by fixing these >> permissions. > > There were suggestions that this should be >> included in a FAQ. I thought > for the sake of reference I should >> mention that the first place I looked > was the release-notes at > >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/index >> perhaps > this info belongs in there? Is the maintainer of these >> notes subscribed? I am subscribed, but I would prefer for efficiency that any request to change the release notes or the installation manual (for sparc, or otherwise) is sent to or filed as a bug against boot-floppies. >> I'm the maintainer of /ports/sparc, and I plan to consolidate the >> various slink install comments and put them there shortly. Excellent. sd> The stuff that I have seen so far: sd> The permissions have do be changed on /dev/fb*. I'd be happy to add this stuff to the release notes, but I need more information. Or I'd also be even happier just to point to Jules' area on the web site. Guidance, please! sd> The /dev/mouse link has to be created: "ln -sf sunmouse sd> /dev/mouse" Should this be added to the release notes? Errata? Enrique (the boot-floppies maintainer) thinks it's a xserver-xsun bug, btw (bug submitted by me just today). Same goes for the rest of the info Steve very helpfully summarized. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Re: Things for FAQ (was: Thanks: X works as root, not as user)
> "Daniel" == Daniel Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On 12 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: >> Initializing the swap partition doesn't work during the install on >> an Ultra (perhaps for all 2.2.1 kernel installs). You have to do >> mkswap after the install completes. (The mkswap that is installed >> works fine.) Daniel> Worked fine on my IPC. Were you booting via 2.2 kernels or 2.0? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Re: Problems booting Slink
> "Angel" == Angel Martin Alganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Angel> Hello! I am trying to install Slink on a Sparc station and get Angel> stuck at the boot: prompt. The documentaion does not seem too Angel> clear to me, so that I cannot figure out what to do. I am Angel> getting the following error message: Angel> SILO Fatal error: Cannot read partition Illegal or malformed Angel> device name Fatal error: Cannot read partition Fatal error: Angel> Cannot read partition Fatal error: Unable to open filesystem Angel> boot: When you partitioned your boot disk, did you partition it as a Sun disk label? YOu have to do that Sorry the silo documentation in the install manual is weak -- be comforted that the x86/lilo documentation is just as week. I suspect either a bad disklabel or else a misconfigured silo, which you should be able to recover from by putting in the right silo arguments on the prompt. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Re: bootdisk for sparc
> "hh" == Harold Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hh> Just to make sure. I am FTPing the files to do a bootfloppy for hh> the sparc and wondring if I need to get all the files that is at hh> the ftp site... RTM, to wit, read the installation manual. It goes into depth on what files you need to install. hh> and also will the disk eject from the floppy hh> drive on sparc automatically since it doesn't have a drive like a hh> regular pc does... Should autoeject. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Re: kbdrate/pdksh/kernel?
> "Christian" == Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christian> - patch the kernel for sparc: Christian> zcat /usr/src/kernel-patches/sparc/sparclinux-2.0.35-980805.diff.gz Christian> | patch -p1 Christian> - configure the kernel: make menuconfig - Christian> compile the kernel and build a deb: make-kpkg Christian> --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image - install the kernel deb Christian> package: cd ..; dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.35deb Won't make-kpkg automatically apply patches? >From kernel-pkg.conf(5): patch_the_kernel This is an experts only variable. If set to YES (ENV variable PATCH_THE_KERNEL overrides this), the build process causes run-parts to be run over /usr/src/kernel-patches/$(architecture)/apply and (hopefully) reverses the process during clean by running run-parts over /usr/src/kernel- patches/$(architecture)/unpatch. This is still evolving. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Re: is there a way to install debian from win95 cd drive over network.
> "Harold" == Harold Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harold> I have a windows95 computer with a 7 cd disc changer... I Harold> would like to know if there is a way to setup windows95 to Harold> allow sparc to install debian from cd to the sparc as I have Harold> no cd drive on sparc You'd need an NFS server for the Win95 box. To boot from that you'd need a TFTP server and BOOTP or RARP, which seems unlikely for Win95. See the Installation Manual for info. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
setserial problems, bug submitted
I've submitted the following bug against setserial. If anyone on this list can give more pointers, or clues, or patches, please follow up to the bug. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> Package: setserial Version: 2.14-3 >> 2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with "Cannot autoconfigure port: >> Invalid argument" -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not >> likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as >> in the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for >> Sparc? Enrique> Again, I know little about serial ports on Sparc, so I can't Enrique> tell for sure if this is a bug in setserial or not, but I Enrique> think just commenting out the AUTO_IRQ=auto_irq line will do Enrique> the trick. Perhaps setserial should detect it's running on a Enrique> Sparc and not try autoconfig if that's not supported in that Enrique> architecture. Again, my vote is wishlist (or normal) bug Enrique> against setserial. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly. Either a bad sparc interaction or a bad kernel 2.2.x interaction. I'll ask if anyone on the Debian sparc list shed more light.
Re: Several problems with fresh installation
Christian Meder writes: > > > > venus:~# dpkg --configure nis > > Setting up nis (3.3.1-1) ... > > Your system is not yet configured as a NIS client. Please read > > /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz to find out how to configure your > > system. > > Setting NIS domainname to: info-objects.com > > Starting NIS services: ypbind > > Weird. nis works just fine for me. Did you check if it works if you > start it by hand ? I got the same problem. It is about a week before the release of slink (9 Mars) and I haven't check if there is a new nis package since then. ypbind just hangs. This happens when trying to instsll the package and also when launching ypbind by hand. --- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 ---
Re: Well... at least it's constant! Can not get passed SCSI bus reset
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 04:25:08PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > > esp0: disconnect, resetting bus > > esp0: resetting bus... > > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > > esp0: disconnect, resetting bus > > esp0: resetting bus... > > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > I've seen that too, with non "sun-compatible" SCSI CDROM, (well I'm using a PowerLite laptop..said it was full sun compatible...) I tried 4 differents CDROM : - Sun CDROM (2 x) : recognized as a Sony one...no problem - HP CDROM (2 x) : recognized as a TOSHIBA model...doesn't work properly ( scsi bus reset ...) - Sony CDROM (32 x) : no problem - Panasonic CD-R (4 x) : same as HP As far as I remember, I've seen the same problem while installing Solaris ( That was 2 years ago) that's why I supposed it was a Sun problem. Hope this help, maxime. -- Baudin maxime [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: People needed to compile packages in proposed-updates.
Sparc Classic, apt-get update'd every day, available. How do I go about it? Regards, On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Christian Hudon wrote: > Hi, > > now that the Sparc port is a released, supported version of Debian, we need > people to recompile the stuff that lands in proposed-updates (security > updates, etc.) We'd need people who read their mail often and have access > to a machine running Debian/Sparc, as the turnaround time is important, > especially for security-related updates. Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta Tel: +91(11) 6941831, 6946619 Eurolink Systems LtdFax: +91(11) 6943732 New Delhi, India email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eurolink doesn't pay me to speak for it, so I don't Old age is not an accomplishment, nor youth a sin
Re: Well... at least it's constant! Can not get passed SCSI bus reset
> Please review the following boot sequence of a SPARC 630MP and if you can, > shed some light as to why the unit wants to cycle through the SCSI bus reset > process continuously. This is a self burned 2.1 debian CD image downloaded > from the debian site. > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 > esp0: disconnect, resetting bus > esp0: resetting bus... > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > esp0: disconnect, resetting bus > esp0: resetting bus... > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt I have seen this before with the esp and certain SCSI devices. I'll look into it. Anton
Well... at least it's constant! Can not get passed SCSI bus reset
Greetings, Please review the following boot sequence of a SPARC 630MP and if you can, shed some light as to why the unit wants to cycle through the SCSI bus reset process continuously. This is a self burned 2.1 debian CD image downloaded from the debian site. Thank you. Lance <#0> ok boot cdrom Resetting ... screen not found. SPARCsystem 600MP Series (4 X CY605C), No Keyboard ROM Rev. 2.5, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #4200294. Ethernet address 8:0:20:10:b4:4f, Host ID: 71401766. Rebooting with command: cdrom Boot device: /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],81000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],8/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:d File and args: SILO \ Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1! This is the Debian Rescue disk. Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary. On most systems, you can go ahead and press to begin installation. You will probably want to try doing that before you try anything else. If you run into trouble, or if you already have questions, press the key to list alternative boot options or enter the "help" keyword to show a message about SILO boot commands. WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue disk from the drive and enter the "halt" keyword to get back to the monitor. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. This disk uses Linux 2.0.35 (from kernel-image-2.0.35_2.0.35-4) Press to boot! boot: Loading initial ramdisk PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1 root child is ffd5df54 Found CPU 0 Found CPU 1 Found CPU 2 Found CPU 3 .u$e. .$:S $"*$/"*$$ $.`$ . ^F 4k+#+T.$F 4P+++"$"$ :R"+ t$$B ___# $$$ | | R$$k dd. | Linux $!$ ddd | Sparc $9$F '!$ !!#!` !* .!` '!!!W..e$$!!`2.0.35 "~^^~ ^~~^ PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 ARCH: SUN4M TYPE: Sun4m SparcSystem600 Ethernet address: 8:0:20:10:b4:4f SRMMU: Using VAC size of 65536 bytes, line size 32 bytes. Found 4 CPU prom device tree node(s). IOMMU: impl 0 vers 1 page table at f028 of size 262144 bytes sbus0: Clock 20.0 MHz dma0: ESC Revision 1 zs0: console I/O Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 39.83 BogoMIPS Memory: 61420k available (1072k kernel code, 1748k data) [f000,f400] Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Linux version 2.0.35 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Wed Feb 17 20:37:03 CET 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.18.2.15 tty00 at 0xffedd004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffedd000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffeda004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffeda000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 keyboard: not present Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clock 25 MHz CCF=5 Time-Out 167 NCR53C9x(esp236) detected ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP236 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST41600N SUN1.3G Rev: 0040 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST41600N SUN1.3G Rev: 0080 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST1480 SUN0424 Rev: 5728 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU-8012 Rev: 3.1e Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 esp0: disconnect, resetting bus esp0: resetting bus... esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt esp0: disconnect, resetting bus esp0: resetting bus... esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
Re: People needed to compile packages in proposed-updates.
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:46:50PM -0500, Christian Hudon wrote: > Hi, > > now that the Sparc port is a released, supported version of Debian, we need > people to recompile the stuff that lands in proposed-updates (security > updates, etc.) We'd need people who read their mail often and have access > to a machine running Debian/Sparc, as the turnaround time is important, > especially for security-related updates. > > Can you please send addresses our way? And for recompiling, please start > with the 'super' package in proposed-updates. I can. I was not aware that we needed a recompile, I'll have it uploaded soon. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Core - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
Re: [renfro@tntech.edu] Great job with 2.1, just a few minor questions
> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo Enrique> wrote: >> I can confirm these bugs. Is there anyone working on them? >> Should I submit them as bugs against boot-floppies? Enrique> What has boot-floppies to do with these bugs? Read on, gentle maintainer. >> Couple of glitches, though, that might have alrady been addressed: >> >> 1) /dev/mouse was not symlinked to /dev/sunmouse when I first tried >> X. Does some package that everybody else installs take care of >> that? As I didn't even touch dselect, and used apt to get whatever >> other packages were needed, I may very well have left out >> something. Enrique> Why should it be symlinked? AFAICT, the proper procedure is Enrique> defining /dev/sunmouse as the pointer device. /dev/mouse is a Enrique> nice thing to have, (don't need to remember which device is Enrique> the mouse connected in which machine) but I remember creating Enrique> it by hand every time I needed it. Perhaps xserver-configure Enrique> should create it? I don't know for sure, but it sounds like a Enrique> wishlist bug against X. There is no xserver-configure for the xserver-xsun line AFAIK. There is no configuration required on the systems supported by those servers. The default X servers for other sparc machines (such as my matrox64) assume that /dev/mouse is valid. I don't see why it shouldn't be. It is valid for x86, right? >> 2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with "Cannot autoconfigure port: >> Invalid argument" -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not >> likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as >> in the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for >> Sparc? Enrique> Again, I know little about serial ports on Sparc, so I can't Enrique> tell for sure if this is a bug in setserial or not, but I Enrique> think just commenting out the AUTO_IRQ=auto_irq line will do Enrique> the trick. Perhaps setserial should detect it's running on a Enrique> Sparc and not try autoconfig if that's not supported in that Enrique> architecture. Again, my vote is wishlist (or normal) bug Enrique> against setserial. Correct, not a boot-floppies bug. I say at least a normal bug. Sparc is important as x86 (or should be). I'll make sure the bug is there -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
People needed to compile packages in proposed-updates.
Hi, now that the Sparc port is a released, supported version of Debian, we need people to recompile the stuff that lands in proposed-updates (security updates, etc.) We'd need people who read their mail often and have access to a machine running Debian/Sparc, as the turnaround time is important, especially for security-related updates. Can you please send addresses our way? And for recompiling, please start with the 'super' package in proposed-updates. Thanks, Christian Debian Security pgpnyf1840RIM.pgp Description: PGP signature
