Re: bootfloppies for sparc 1+

[Eric Delaunay]

Harold Hartley wrote:
> I am wondering if the newer bootfloppies for sparc has been released or
> not..
> I have the ones when slink was released and wondering if there are newer
> ones yet...

New beta release is sitting in
ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/current
It is 2.2.7 based kernel but it has a real problem with default keymap.
Keyboard is almost unsuable until you will have installed a keymap.  Hopefully,
the right key acts as enter, so hitting it several times will select the
sun qwerty keymap then load it :)
I'm waiting for a real stable kernel (2.2.9? 10? 11?) to upload a new one.

Regards.

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sparc power light goes out upon 2.2 boot

[Chris Frost]

I just compiled a 2.2.9 kernel for a sparcstation 2 ahd upon booting the
kernel the keyboard lights flash and the power light on the sparc goes out
(thought the computer is still running). This doesn't happen under
debian's kernel (2.0.35, this machine is running slink). What be causing
this? Another oddity of the 2.2.9 kernel is that netscape (4.51,
glibc-sparc-linux) dies while loading with a bus error, it worked just
fine under 2.0.35.

What might be causing this?

thanks again!
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Re: SILO won't load images

[Chris Frost]

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:01:18PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> If the kernel is dynamically linked, that certainly sounds like a 
> problem!  
>   

> cd /usr/src/linux && rm vmlinux && make vmlinux   
/usr/src/linux/vmlinux? That's it! I'm used to kernels being in
arch//boot, so I've been using vmlinux.o from there (I was wondering
why it left the .o there, but didn't think much else of it). (It's always
little things like this that troubles me...)

> to do the final linking again and see what command is being run for the   
> final link (something like "ld ... -o vmlinux").  
yes, it doesn't an ld -m ...

Aweseome, thanks so much!

Running 2.2.9 now,
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Re: SILO won't load images

[Chris Frost]

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:06:52PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Hm. It sounds as though there is something seriously wrong with your
> vmlinux. When you built it, did you have any unusual binutils
> installed, like a cross-compiler or something?
I'm just using out-of-the-box stuff off of an offical slink cd (though it
never asked for the seconds disc...).

> I would try comparing the vmlinux you made with Debian's vmlinux using
> nm, objdump, etc, to see if there is something obviously strange about
> it. Even "file vmlinux" might tell you something.
nm printed info for all three kernels (many, many pages worth), which
appears to be pretty much the same (though debian's kernel was gzip'd w/o
a gzip extension, so I had to give it one temporarily). The only
difference file reports is that my kernel is not statically linked, is
this a problem? (Also, none of the kernels are not stripped, is it safe do
so? How would you do so?)

> A SPARCstation 2, sun4c, is exactly what I have at home with only 32 MB
> memory; I built a 2.2.7 that worked, running slink. So I'm curious to
> know why yours isn't working ...
Yes, me too . . .

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Re: SILO won't load images

[Chris Frost]

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Davide Barbieri wrote:
>  You don't have to compress the kernel image.
Right, but they can be compressed. Anyway, I gunzip'd the kernel images
just to check again and the 700K kernel (with many things as modules)
became 2.2MB and gives the same error message. The 900K kernel (now 2.6MB)
spins for a bit, the says twice, "Fatal error: Image to large to fit in
destination" followed by "Image not found try again"

puzzled,
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bootfloppies for sparc 1+

[Harold Hartley]

I am wondering if the newer bootfloppies for sparc has been released or
not..
I have the ones when slink was released and wondering if there are newer
ones yet...

I'm also still having trouble trying to rid the old SunOS from my sparc 1+
drive as when I need to shutdown linux it falls into a loop with the
SunOS...
would I be better off if I just formatted(clean off the drive) and start
over from scratch...
I run a sparc 1+ (sun4c) and hope it will work better than it is now...

the SunOS is on the sd(0,0,0) and I had to start the linux(slink) at
sd(0,1,0)
and just seems to be a big pain...
the above are the way the Sun see's the Drive, and linux seems to see the
Drives as  sda and sdb...

hope someone has a solution

thanks
Harold

Re: esp0 error on boot with 2.2 kernels only?

[Stephen Zander]

> "Marc" == Marc Reichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marc> esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection.

Does

linux max_scsi_luns=1

at the silo prompt help?

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SILO won't load images

[Chris Frost]

I'm trying to get silo to load kernels which I've made for my sparc
(sun4c, a ss2) but silo seems to simply not do it, though it does load
debian's kernel just fine.

I make a kernel on the sparc and did a "make vmlinux", then gzip'd it, put
it in /boot, and entered it into /etc/silo. Upon booting and silo's prompt
when I enter the image's name silo dies. I have two kernels I'm trying
(one of arund 700k gzip'd and one around 900k gzip'd). The 700k kernel
say's "Uncompressing..." for a bit, slows down (the little spinner that
is), the says 
"Fatal error: Cannont find a loadable segmet in your ELF image
Program terminated"
leaving me at an ok prompt. The larger kernel shows that it is
uncompressing, the spinner slows down, the says:
"Decompression error: uncompressed image too long - woudln't fin into
destination". What does this really mean? (It should have to do with disk
space or ram, as I have several hundred megs of hard drive free and 64
megs ram.) Oh yes, I'm trying to build a 2.2.9 kernel and the machine in
question is running slink (r0). Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

thanks!
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