Re: Sparc serial port pinout?
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to build a null-modem cable to go between my SparcStation and my Lintel box, and my Sparc has the round 8-pin mini-DINs. These wouldn't be signal-compatible with Mac serial ports, would they? Alternately, are there any companies besides Sun who make such a thing? Yes, they are signal-compatible. Whether Mac cables will work for high speed modems is often debated, but I have been using a Mac cable for a while now and things seem fine. I do also have an acutal Sun cable too... and I haven't seen a difference, and I run it with a 33600 modem. Great! One more question. If it doesn't have a keyboard and monitor plugged in, will it put the console out the serial port automagically? -- Ferret no baka
Re: New kernel images available...
Ben Collins wrote: I have three new kernel images for sparc in incoming on master (hopefully installed tomorrow). There are sun4c, sparc and sun4u kernels. The sun4c image is mainly for setting up a minimal bootdisk to boot sun4c's (Eric's request). These are from the stock 2.2.13 source. Feel free to test them. I have enabled (and disabled) the options Eric requested for doing the proper boot things (bootp, nfsroot, loopback, etc...). Eric, can you take a look at the sun4c config? I removed almost everything, and the image uncompresses to around 1.7megs, and strips to just about 1.46 megs. I'm not sure if this is usable for what you needed, but let me know if there is anything else I can change (I'll get the changes out sooner this time :). Ben Thanks Ben, I got it yesterday but I'm having nasty troubles with my SCSI subsystem and I don't think I can work with it immediately. One of my SCSI disks is dying with I/O errors symptoms and my Magneto-Optical drive used to transfer huges files from my lab to my home freezes the SCSI chain every now an then :( I hope to fix these problems asap, then I will build new bootdisks based on your kernel images. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
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Help me please. Escuse my english, I'm french. I want to run Linux on a Ultra Sparc 2. I make a floppy disk with the image resc1440-2.2.1-sun4u.bin. The system don't boot, whith 'boot floppy', it say : Boot device: /sbus/SUNW, fdtwo File and args: Track 0 reported when on track 2. Evaluating: boot floppy Can't open boot device. Salutations. De Volder Fabrice Cegetel DIRES Région Centre-Est Qualité de Fonctionnement Tel : 04 72 81 34 39 Mobile : 06 09 43 51 59
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:52:09AM +0100, DE VOLDER Fabrice wrote: Help me please. Escuse my english, I'm french. I want to run Linux on a Ultra Sparc 2. I make a floppy disk with the image resc1440-2.2.1-sun4u.bin. The system don't boot, whith 'boot floppy', it say : Boot device: /sbus/SUNW, fdtwo File and args: Track 0 reported when on track 2. Evaluating: boot floppy Can't open boot device. Weird. I used these images with no problems. Are you able to try the tftp image? Ben
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 05:56:09AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Boot device: /sbus/SUNW, fdtwo File and args: Track 0 reported when on track 2. Evaluating: boot floppy Can't open boot device. Weird. I used these images with no problems. Are you able to try the tftp image? I have the same problem here, on a non-sun sparc5. (RDI powerlite laptop) It seems to be a hardware problem, I never understand if it was because of a non-standard floppy drive or controler. I heard that someone in Redhat team tried to resolve the problem, but it was 2 years ago and I lost his name. Anyway, the problem still exists so I guess he didn't find a solution. I suppose the only solution is to use a bootable cdrom, or rarp for new install. regards, max -- Le paradis c'est rempli de gens qui pendant l'éternité entière, vont se raconter des souvenirs de leurs vies. L'enfer c'est pareil... sauf qu'en plus chacun apporte ses diapos.
Re: Sparc serial port pinout?
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great! One more question. If it doesn't have a keyboard and monitor plugged in, will it put the console out the serial port automagically? -- Ferret no baka It should. I know Suns do that automagically, and I know solaris does, and I know Debian is supposed to, but I haven't tried it yet, so I can't say for certain under Debian. --Kurt
Re: Sparc serial port pinout?
One more question. If it doesn't have a keyboard and monitor plugged in, will it put the console out the serial port automagically? It should. I know Suns do that automagically, and I know solaris does, and I know Debian is supposed to, but I haven't tried it yet, so I can't say for certain under Debian. yes, this works. It's a sun hardware thing, rather than a software issue, methinks. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| --
