Re: Unidentified subject!
[ please don't top post ] On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:19:48PM +0100, Daniel van Eeden wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) > >machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation > >everyting works fine with SILO. When I press ENTER at the boot: prompt I > >get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd > >and noticed that there is only a sparc64 file and not a sparc64.gz file. > >Accordning to the SILO file the sparc64 is supposed to be used for rescue. > >What am I doing wrong? > > > >thanks Kim > > just enter "1/boot/sparc64" to boot /boot/sparc64 from the first > partition. Afterwards edit your silo.conf. Except that doesn't work; you need to provide a root filesystem argument to the kernel. I said "to hell with it" and did a netboot install instead. How do you edit silo.conf on a CD? :-) -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No. > Should I include quotations after my reply?
Re: kernel problem
I've got exactly the same problems. The watchdog is indeed a piece of protectional hardware, If you disable it your system will just crash instead of the reset. I'm using a spartstation4 110Mhz. with TurboGX framebuffer and CS4231 soundcard. Frank Van Damme wrote: Hello, I just installed Debian on a sparc laptop. Version of debian is Sid (that means there's some stuff from woody but not much, and glibc is the sid version etc). I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel on it, starting from debians sources apt-get source kernel-2.4.20_sparc (or something) then configure it, make-kpkg buildpackage, reboot. When I try to use the kernel, I get - a message 'uncompressing image) - a few messages about bootmem etc (passes quickly) - an error "Watchdog reset" and I go back to the boot prompt again. Anyone who knows what this is (or how to disable watchdog, it sounds to me like some hardware protection thing). Sparc in question is a rdi powerlite 110 laptop. kernel config is attached. # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_SPARC32=y # CONFIG_ISA is not set # CONFIG_EISA is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA is not set CONFIG_SBUS=y CONFIG_SBUSCHAR=y CONFIG_BUSMOUSE=y CONFIG_SUN_MOUSE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SUN_KEYBOARD=y CONFIG_SUN_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SUN_AUXIO=y CONFIG_SUN_IO=y CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM is not set CONFIG_SUN_PM=y # CONFIG_SUN4 is not set # CONFIG_PCI is not set CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMFS=m CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_SUNOS_EMUL=y # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set CONFIG_PRINTER=m # # Console drivers # CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE=y # # Frame-buffer support # CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set CONFIG_FB_SBUS=y CONFIG_FB_CGSIX=y # CONFIG_FB_BWTWO is not set # CONFIG_FB_CGTHREE is not set CONFIG_FB_TCX=y CONFIG_FB_CGFOURTEEN=y # CONFIG_FB_P9100 is not set # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY=y CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16=y # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set # # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) # # CONFIG_MTD is not set # # Misc Linux/SPARC drivers # CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMIO=m CONFIG_SUN_MOSTEK_RTC=y # CONFIG_SUN_BPP is not set # CONFIG_SUN_VIDEOPIX is not set CONFIG_SUN_AURORA=m # CONFIG_TADPOLE_TS102_UCTRL is not set # CONFIG_SUN_JSFLASH is not set # # Linux/SPARC audio subsystem (EXPERIMENTAL) # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO=m # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_AMD7930 is not set # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_DBRI is not set # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_CS4231 is not set # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_DUMMY is not set # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # # CONFIG_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID1 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set # CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y # CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set # CONFIG_FILTER is not set CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set CONFIG_IPV6=m # CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set # CONFIG_ATM is not set # CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set # # # CONFIG_IPX=m # CONFIG_IPX_INTERN is not set CONFIG_ATALK=m # # Appletalk devices # # CONFIG_DEV_APPLETALK is not set CONFIG_DECNET=m CONFIG_DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF=y # CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set # CONFIG_LLC is not set # CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set # CONFIG_ECONET is not set # CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set # CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set # # QoS and/or fair queueing # # CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set # # Network testing # CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN=m # CONFIG_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DE
Re: Unidentified subject!
just enter "1/boot/sparc64" to boot /boot/sparc64 from the first partition. Afterwards edit your silo.conf. Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation everyting works fine with SILO. When I press ENTER at the boot: prompt I get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd and noticed that there is only a sparc64 file and not a sparc64.gz file. Accordning to the SILO file the sparc64 is supposed to be used for rescue. What am I doing wrong? thanks Kim -- +-+ | Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | icq: 36952189 | | aim: Compukid128| | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | phone: +31 343 522622 | | http://compukid.no-ip.org/about_me.html | +-+
Re: Please help: HappyMeal Bug
On maanantai, helmi 17, 2003, at 19:30 Europe/Helsinki, Dave Love wrote:
make a bug report against the FAQ; (b) I can perhaps provide the .deb
I built eventually.
I put the mine (runs on an Ultra1, 200MHz) up at
http://www.sci.fi/~pfp/ultra1-kernel
- enjoy. The config file is there too. The kernel has iptables, net
filesystems etc.
compiled as modules.
I had trouble using audio with this kernel, though. The cs24231 module
has only loaded once,
at other times audio.o fails complaining "init_moduled: Input/output
error"...
--
p f p @ i k i . f i, {040, +358-40} - 532 95 80
look like this pie lake is empty
Re: Please help: HappyMeal Bug
"Hobbs, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two .patch files, but I don't have a clue how to apply them... I > assume they go into the kernel somewhere, but haven't never touched a > kernel, I'm clueless. > > Can anyone offer any help on this?? There is an item on building a new kernel package in the Debian FAQ somewhere under http://www.uk.debian.org/. If that doesn't help (a) make a bug report against the FAQ; (b) I can perhaps provide the .deb I built eventually.
Re: Floppy Install Problem on SS10
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +, Gary Parker wrote: > Hi Guys (and Gals)... > I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb > RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun > keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my laptop on > the serial port. Serial-port interaction should be no problem at all. I see only one potential problem: I think the floppy-drive on most Sparcs are merely decorative. Have you tried booting "net", getting the tftpboot.img? That _usually_ works like a champ. - chad pgpbNdPil2PTL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Floppy Install Problem on SS10
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:15:45PM +0100, Erwan MAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +, Gary Parker wrote: > | Hi Guys (and Gals)... > | I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb > | RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun > | keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my laptop on > | the serial port. > | [../..] > | Cheers in advance for any advice given... > > Hello , > > when you have lilo prompt , you must specify to linux > where is the linux console . > > In first time you must specify > silo: linux console=ttya Your SPARC should automatically use the serial console for i/o since there is no keyboard. This behaviour is propably a bug in the debian installation system, maybe it is restricted to installation by floppy disc only. We had this discussion already: After using Ben Collins' CD-Image, this issue has been solved for me (see the debian archives for details on this).
The End Of the Story - so far.
First, thanks for the responses on the best OS to install for an SS20. I was the one who had an Apple (Sony) cdrom connected externally to an SS20. Turns out the cdrom is NOT compatible with Sun stuff. I got a Toshiba this weekend and the install wizzed past the error I was getting with the Sony cdrom. Now my troubles are all human error since I know the hardware is ok. charles.
kernel problem
Hello, I just installed Debian on a sparc laptop. Version of debian is Sid (that means there's some stuff from woody but not much, and glibc is the sid version etc). I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel on it, starting from debians sources apt-get source kernel-2.4.20_sparc (or something) then configure it, make-kpkg buildpackage, reboot. When I try to use the kernel, I get - a message 'uncompressing image) - a few messages about bootmem etc (passes quickly) - an error "Watchdog reset" and I go back to the boot prompt again. Anyone who knows what this is (or how to disable watchdog, it sounds to me like some hardware protection thing). Sparc in question is a rdi powerlite 110 laptop. kernel config is attached. -- Frank Van Damme http://www.openstandaarden.be # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_SPARC32=y # CONFIG_ISA is not set # CONFIG_EISA is not set # CONFIG_MCA is not set # CONFIG_PCMCIA is not set CONFIG_SBUS=y CONFIG_SBUSCHAR=y CONFIG_BUSMOUSE=y CONFIG_SUN_MOUSE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SUN_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SUN_KEYBOARD=y CONFIG_SUN_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SUN_AUXIO=y CONFIG_SUN_IO=y CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM is not set CONFIG_SUN_PM=y # CONFIG_SUN4 is not set # CONFIG_PCI is not set CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMFS=m CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_SUNOS_EMUL=y # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_1284 is not set CONFIG_PRINTER=m # # Console drivers # CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE=y # # Frame-buffer support # CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set CONFIG_FB_SBUS=y CONFIG_FB_CGSIX=y # CONFIG_FB_BWTWO is not set # CONFIG_FB_CGTHREE is not set CONFIG_FB_TCX=y CONFIG_FB_CGFOURTEEN=y # CONFIG_FB_P9100 is not set # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY=y CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16=y # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set # # Memory Technology Devices (MTD) # # CONFIG_MTD is not set # # Misc Linux/SPARC drivers # CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMIO=m CONFIG_SUN_MOSTEK_RTC=y # CONFIG_SUN_BPP is not set # CONFIG_SUN_VIDEOPIX is not set CONFIG_SUN_AURORA=m # CONFIG_TADPOLE_TS102_UCTRL is not set # CONFIG_SUN_JSFLASH is not set # # Linux/SPARC audio subsystem (EXPERIMENTAL) # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO=m # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_AMD7930 is not set # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_DBRI is not set # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_CS4231 is not set # CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_DUMMY is not set # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # # CONFIG_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID1 is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set # CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y # CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set # CONFIG_FILTER is not set CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set CONFIG_IPV6=m # CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set # CONFIG_ATM is not set # CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set # # # CONFIG_IPX=m # CONFIG_IPX_INTERN is not set CONFIG_ATALK=m # # Appletalk devices # # CONFIG_DEV_APPLETALK is not set CONFIG_DECNET=m CONFIG_DECNET_SIOCGIFCONF=y # CONFIG_DECNET_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set # CONFIG_LLC is not set # CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set # CONFIG_ECONET is not set # CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set # CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set # # QoS and/or fair queueing # # CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set # # Network testing # CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN=m # CONFIG_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # ISDN subsystem # # CONFIG_ISDN is not set # # SCSI support # CONFIG_SCSI=y # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom) # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y CONF
Re: Floppy Install Problem on SS10
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:19:46PM +, Gary Parker wrote: | Hi Guys (and Gals)... | I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb | RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun | keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my laptop on | the serial port. | [../..] | Cheers in advance for any advice given... Hello , when you have lilo prompt , you must specify to linux where is the linux console . In first time you must specify silo: linux console=ttya -- / Erwan MAS /\ | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_/ ___| | \___\__/
Forget the last question
As it seems I was able to install it through the rescue option. Kim PS. I'm also sorry for the duplicate mails
Sparc installation
Hi, I ha a Debian 3 NONUS Sparc64 cd with which I'm trying to install a Ultra 5/10 (sun4u) machine. When I boot from the cd SILO works fine but when I at the boot: prompt press enter I get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd and noticed that there is no sparc64.gz file in the boot folder, only a sparc64 file. According to the SILO file the sparc64 file is only used for resque. Hmm, do I have a bad CD or what am I doing wrong? Kim
Unidentified subject!
Hi, I have the NONUS Debain 3 Sparc CD available and a sun4u (Ultra 5/10) machine. When I try to boot from the cd and begin the installation everyting works fine with SILO. When I press ENTER at the boot: prompt I get the following error: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz. I checked the cd and noticed that there is only a sparc64 file and not a sparc64.gz file. Accordning to the SILO file the sparc64 is supposed to be used for rescue. What am I doing wrong? thanks Kim
Floppy Install Problem on SS10
Hi Guys (and Gals)... I'm having some problems installing debian 3.0 onto an SS10 (128Mb RAM, 2xSM51, 4Gb HDD, Quad Ethernet card, SunGX). I don't have a Sun keyboard or monitor so all interaction with the system is via my laptop on the serial port. Basically, the machine boots off a rescue floppy quite happily and gets as far as asking for the root floppy, telling me to press return when I've inserted the disc. The problem is that it doesn't respond to me pressing return, in fact the only thing it *does* seem to respond to is ctrl-break which brings up the boot-prom prompt, obviously. I'm guessing that the system is expecting it's input to come from the keyboard rather than a tty once the kernel is booted and that's why it's not responding, so the question is: how do I get it to listen to the tty instead for the course of the install (obviously I can telnet/ssh into it once it's installed). Btw I've previously installed and run RH6.2 on this system with problems whatsoever so I'm reasonably sure that the hardware is sound. Cheers in advance for any advice given... Gary Parker Systems Engineer NCC - Education IT This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager via NCC Help Desk (0115) 9772010. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. Nottinghamshire County Council Legal Disclaimer
