sunblade 150 + debian.
Hi! Today the research center where i work, buy a sunblade 150, so, soon i'll have to install it. Does woody can be installed on this box? if not, where can i find sarge for sparc? (in 7 mirrors i looked, just in 2 i find 3.0r2 for sparc). I have been using debian for 4 years, but only in i386 and ppc and begining with mips (this week), and i hope soon in sparc. Plz cc me, i'm not in the list (untill the box arrives to my office ;) ) Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
New to Debian-Sparc
Hi, this are my first steps running linux on a sparc-machine. A few days ago I bought a used Ultra60 at Ebay. After installing Solaris on the first disk, I want to try linux now. First, the machine has 2 450-Mhz-Ultrasparc cpus, 2 GB ram and 2 9.1-GB harddisks. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 3.0r2. (I wanted to test d-i, but the cdimages don't have any kernel module in the initrd, so no installation possible, see bug #243457) I partitioned the second disk and installed woody straight forward. The problem was 'Making the system bootable', I just selected yes, rebooted and nothing happened. I booted the rescue system, read silo documentation, had no idea what was wrong. It was an error at layer 8 (sitting in front of the screen) :-). I tried to 'boot disk2' instead of 'boot disk1' for the second disk. But one question remains, I didn't find any hint in which place silo will be installed, and can I change it? After this adventure I think it will be installed in the boot block of the disk '/boot'-Partition is on. Is this right? Now I was able to complete my install and upgrade to unstable :-) then I wanted to compile a custom kernel. I wanted to use menuconfig. after installing lib64ncurses* menuconfig compiled but it always hangs after parsing the .config. I don't know why. and xconfig has a problem with tkparse. I tried kernel-source 2.4.25 and 2.6.5, both transcripts attached. Can anyone help? btw. can I use these kernels on a ultrasparc? and I discovered another problem, I cannot run 'top'. I always get top: failed /proc/stat read -- thanks Jörg Friedrich
Re: New to Debian-Sparc
Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Samstag, 17. April 2004 um 10:50:30 +0200: with tkparse. I tried kernel-source 2.4.25 and 2.6.5, both transcripts attached. Can anyone help? Btw: You don't have to use your crystall-balls, these files are attached to this mail :-) -- Jörg Friedrich # make-kpkg --config=menuconfig --revision=2.4.25.sun.1 kernel_image test ! -f stamp-debian test ! -f debian/official \--config=config --revision=2.4.25.sun.1 kernel_image kernel_heade rm -rf ./debian mkdir ./debiannfig=config --revision=2.4.25.sun.1 kernel_image kernel_head test ! -f stamp-debian -a \ ! \( -f debian/official -a -f debian/control \) \ sed -e 's/=V/2.4.25/g'-e 's/=D/2.4.25.sun.1/g' \ -e 's/=A/sparc/g' -e 's/=SA/-sparc64/g' \ -e 's/=L/silo, /g' -e 's/=I//g'\ -e 's/=CV/2.4/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/Control debian/control test ! -f stamp-debian test ! -f debian/official \ sed -e 's/=V/2.4.25/g' -e 's/=D/2.4.25.sun.1/g' \ -e 's/=A/sparc/g' -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog debian/changelog test ! -f debian/rules\ install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules echo done stamp-debian /usr/bin/make -f debian/rules INCLUDE_KERNEL_MAKEFILE=yes conf_vars make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25' debian/rules:1554: warning: overriding commands for target `clean' Makefile:456: warning: ignoring old commands for target `clean' Please ignore the warning about overriding and ignoring targets above. These are harmless. They are only invoked in a part of the process that tries to snarf variable values for the conf.vars file. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25' /usr/bin/make\ ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25' rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm) /usr/bin/make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o checklist.o checklist.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o menubox.o menubox.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o textbox.o textbox.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o yesno.o yesno.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o inputbox.o inputbox.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o util.o util.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=ncurses.h -c -o msgbox.o msgbox.c gcc -o lxdialog checklist.o menubox.o textbox.o yesno.o inputbox.o util.o lxdialog.o msgbox.o -lncurses make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/scripts/lxdialog' /bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/sparc64/config.in Using defaults found in .config Preparing scripts: functions, parsing...done. no further output, waiting and waiting... # make-kpkg --config=xconfig --revision=2.4.25.sun.1 kernel_image est ! -f stamp-debian test ! -f debian/official \ rm -rf ./debian mkdir ./debian test ! -f stamp-debian -a \ ! \( -f debian/official -a -f debian/control \) \ sed -e 's/=V/2.4.25/g'-e 's/=D/2.4.25.sun.1/g' \ -e 's/=A/sparc/g' -e 's/=SA/-sparc64/g' \ -e 's/=L/silo, /g' -e 's/=I//g'\ -e 's/=CV/2.4/g' \ -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/Control debian/control test ! -f stamp-debian test ! -f debian/official \ sed -e 's/=V/2.4.25/g' -e 's/=D/2.4.25.sun.1/g' \ -e 's/=A/sparc/g' -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]/g' \ /usr/share/kernel-package/changelog debian/changelog test ! -f debian/rules\ install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules echo done stamp-debian /usr/bin/make -f debian/rules INCLUDE_KERNEL_MAKEFILE=yes conf_vars make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25' debian/rules:1554: warning: overriding commands for target `clean' Makefile:456: warning: ignoring old commands
PCI USB card Sun Ultra 5 = hangs on boot
Hi: Inspired by some of the earlier messages on this list I bought a cheapo PCI USB card (VIAUSB20 VIA VT6212) and plugged it into my Sun Ultra 5. Unfortunately this causes the machine to completely hang with a blank screen on boot. Does anyone know how to even go about diagnosing this? I can't even hit [Stop]+A - the only thing that happens is the disks spin up, then it hangs solid. Are there any jumpers on the motherboard I could try modifying? Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment MAKE+ is a sane replacement for GNU autoconf/automake. One script compiles, RPMs, pkgs etc. Linux, BSD, Solaris. http://www.annexia.org/freeware/makeplus/
Re: New to Debian-Sparc
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:54:44AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Samstag, 17. April 2004 um 10:50:30 +0200: with tkparse. I tried kernel-source 2.4.25 and 2.6.5, both transcripts attached. Can anyone help? Btw: You don't have to use your crystall-balls, these files are attached to this mail :-) You need to load the binfmt_elf module for the 64-bit binaries to work. Otherwise, do touch /etc/disable_64_gcc. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
Re: New to Debian-Sparc
Ben Collins schrieb am Samstag, 17. April 2004 um 10:10:47 -0400: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:54:44AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Samstag, 17. April 2004 um 10:50:30 +0200: with tkparse. I tried kernel-source 2.4.25 and 2.6.5, both transcripts attached. Can anyone help? Btw: You don't have to use your crystall-balls, these files are attached to this mail :-) You need to load the binfmt_elf module for the 64-bit binaries to work. Otherwise, do touch /etc/disable_64_gcc. Thanks, this was the problem, but the installation kernel from woody 2.4.18 seems to have a problem, this module was not installable. I just installed 2.4.24-ultra-smp (or similar) from debian-mirror, then everything went smooth. -- Jörg Friedrich
firewire/usb
Hi, does anyone have experience with firewire pci cards and/or usb (1.1 or 2) pci cards under linux on Sparc machines? If this is posssible, can you recommend a card? -- Jörg Friedrich
Re: PCI USB card Sun Ultra 5 = hangs on boot
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:21:57 +0100 Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Inspired by some of the earlier messages on this list I bought a | cheapo PCI USB card (VIAUSB20 VIA VT6212) and plugged it into my Sun | Ultra 5. | | Unfortunately this causes the machine to completely hang with a blank | screen on boot. I have two VT6212 chipset USB2 cards that behave in the same way, and I've heard reports that the VT6202 is the same. Every NEC chipset USB2 card I've tried works fine in the same box (u10), so I suspect it's a buggy hardware issue. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at firedrop.org.uk
Re: New to Debian-Sparc
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:12:47PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Ben Collins schrieb am Samstag, 17. April 2004 um 10:10:47 -0400: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:54:44AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Samstag, 17. April 2004 um 10:50:30 +0200: with tkparse. I tried kernel-source 2.4.25 and 2.6.5, both transcripts attached. Can anyone help? Btw: You don't have to use your crystall-balls, these files are attached to this mail :-) You need to load the binfmt_elf module for the 64-bit binaries to work. Otherwise, do touch /etc/disable_64_gcc. Thanks, this was the problem, but the installation kernel from woody 2.4.18 seems to have a problem, this module was not installable. I just installed 2.4.24-ultra-smp (or similar) from debian-mirror, then everything went smooth. 64-bit wasn't working with 2.4.18. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
Re: firewire/usb
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:18:19PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Hi, does anyone have experience with firewire pci cards and/or usb (1.1 or 2) pci cards under linux on Sparc machines? If this is posssible, can you recommend a card? I run a lot of OHCI based firewire cards on my UltraSPARC. You're in luck. As the maintainer of the firewire stack in Linux, and a sparc64 developer, it's the primary testbed for linux1394...so I know it works :) -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
No MS-DOS partition table on bootup
OK. This is totally nonsensical, but let me try anyhow:
I just installed Debian 3.0 on my Sun Ultra 1. I set it up with a nice
neat Sun disklabel ('s' in fdisk). It boots great. It works great.
Then I try compiling my own kernel-- 2.4.26, from the stock Linux kernel
sources available at ftp.kernel.org. I modify silo.conf appropriately, run
'silo'. Reboot. Get the boot prompt and select my new kernel. It starts to
boot... then I get 'ldm_validate_partition_table' puking, and the error
No MS-DOS partition table. It asks for my root password for maintenance,
and I give it to it. It drops me straight into bash.
Now-- I KNOW you guys are going to ask me, Did you compile your kernel
with CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION set to true? Not only did I do that, but I
compiled my kernel with __EVERY SINGLE OPTION__ in the advanced partition
selection section set to true. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
The kernel config I used is attached.
Please HEELP!!!
--
Jessica L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net#
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
#
#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
# CONFIG_KMOD is not set
#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_BBC_I2C is not set
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
CONFIG_SPARC64=y
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
# CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
# CONFIG_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_ISAPNP 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_PCI is not set
CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMFS=m
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_SPARC32_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF32=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT32=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_SUNOS_EMUL=y
CONFIG_SOLARIS_EMUL=m
# CONFIG_OOM_KILLER is not set
#
# 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_IP22 is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
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_CREATOR=y
CONFIG_FB_CGSIX=y
CONFIG_FB_BWTWO=y
CONFIG_FB_CGTHREE=y
CONFIG_FB_LEO=y
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY=y
CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set
#
# Misc Linux/SPARC drivers
#
CONFIG_SUN_OPENPROMIO=m
CONFIG_SUN_MOSTEK_RTC=y
CONFIG_OBP_FLASH=m
CONFIG_SUN_BPP=m
# CONFIG_SUN_VIDEOPIX is not set
CONFIG_SUN_AURORA=m
#
# Linux/SPARC audio subsystem (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO=m
CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_CS4231=m
# CONFIG_SPARCAUDIO_DUMMY is not set
#
# Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
#
# CONFIG_MTD is not set
#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
#
# 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 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
# CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set
CONFIG_FILTER=y
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 is not set
# CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set
#
#SCTP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
CONFIG_IP_SCTP=m
# CONFIG_SCTP_DBG_MSG is not set
# CONFIG_SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT is not set
# CONFIG_SCTP_HMAC_NONE is not set
CONFIG_SCTP_HMAC_SHA1=y
# CONFIG_SCTP_HMAC_MD5 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=y
# CONFIG_COPS_DAYNA is not set
# CONFIG_COPS_TANGENT is not set
CONFIG_IPDDP=m
# CONFIG_IPDDP_ENCAP is not set
CONFIG_IPDDP_DECAP=y
# CONFIG_DECNET 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
#
#
