Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem
As a quick idea: ok printenv Parameter nameValueDefault /* cut */ auto-boot?truefalse boot-device disk3:adisk net ok The boot device is id3, first partition. The system default for autoboot was to check disk first (disk is an alias for a scsi id) and if that didnt work, boot from the network. ok setenv boot-device disk boot-device = disk ok another printenv will show the boot device has been changed. Check the OBP manual.. it provides plenty more detail on this ! hope this helps Andy - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Everard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem Hi Just have to figure out how to boot from disk by default i.e. turn boot net, as a default, off. you can do that in openboot (STOP-A), type help to get a list of commands. from there you can change the defaults using set something best regards, Alex Bartok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install/Boot problem
Hi Just have to figure out how to boot from disk by default i.e. turn boot net, as a default, off. you can do that in openboot (STOP-A), type help to get a list of commands. from there you can change the defaults using set something best regards, Alex Bartok
Re: 2.6.x kernel for Sparc?
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:23:39 -0400, Eric Nichols wrote: I didn't see this in apt... Is there a 2.6.x kernel image available for Sparc (I have a Sparc 5). There is not. sparc32 support is EXTREMELY dodgy at the moment for 2.6.x, but tends to work in uniprocessor mode. (SMP is _completely_ broken right now.) I could muster up some debs, but I'm too busy on the 2.4 stuff right now. -- Joshua Kwan
Ultra 1E CD Boot Problem
Morning all, I've run into a rather serious issue with the old Ultra 1E I have on my desk and could really do with some help. Part of the work I'm doing at the moment is looking into replicating our institution's current software based firewall solution running on i386 architecture to other platforms so as to get away from a single architecture network. So this Ultra 1E has had just about every falvour of Open Source OS under the Sun(tm) capable of running a firewall of some sort installed on it. The original internal CDROM drive in still in it and although it's not too hot at reading CDRs burnt any faster than 4x I've always managed to boot off it to start a net install but last week I installed OpenBSD (with no problems, runs quite happily) and now I can't boot off the CDROM anymore for some reason. I've no idea if the two are connected in any way, but 'boot cdrom' from the openprom prompt now results in the machine reseting, then I get the following message: Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: There's no activity visible via the LED on the drive. 'probe-scsi' reports the following for the drive: Target 6 Unit 0 Removable Read Only deviceTOSHIBA XM-5401blah,blah,blah I've tried booting from the Debian and OpenBSD CDRs I have to no avail and also some original Sun install media. My first guess is that the OpenBSD install has overwritten some setting in the openprom but I'm not sure what. Any help would be gratefully accepted. -- /-Gary Parker---f-Loughborough University-\ n IT Bandwidth Management Specialist - http://www.bmas.ja.net | | Computing Services - http://www.lboro.ac.uk/computing/ o \r--d-/
Re: serial-console
Joerg Friedrich schrieb am Montag, 19. April 2004 um 09:11:15 +0200: Hi! Now I successfully installed Woody on my Ultra60, upgraded to unstable and was able to compile a custom Kernel (2.4.25). But I failed to compile 2.6.5 (Problem in arch/sparc64/smp.c) see attached file. argl, just a stupid default NR_CPU = 64 in arch/sparc64/Kconfig now it works. -- Jörg Friedrich
netboot , need help
Hello gentlemen , I 'd need help to build a kernel wich be abble to boot via the network (ethernet LAN) for diskless stations . Stations are Sun Ultra5 . The boot server is a x86 . I dont use debian sparc but gentoo sparc , but i heard i would need elftoaout and/or piggyback64 (those tools are from the debian project) to build the netbootable kernel ... searching on google i did not find great tutorial or documents that explains me what to do and what it does when i do it ... ( may be i searched the wrong way) Would you help me to build it ? i already have _the_ kernel image embeding nfsroot support , rarp , NIC driver , ... then what is the next step before i upload it to the tftp server ? PS If you have any easy to understand and recent document setting up a tftp-rarp-bootp x86 server i would be glad (my x86 server is runnung slack ... plz dont troll on this :-) ) Thank you in advance for your help . -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
Re: netboot , need help
Try reading the JavaStation HOWTO-- it describes the procedures for creating diskless client images. It is light on net-booting information, but you should be able to find those specifics elsewhere. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/JavaStation-HOWTO.html E Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hello gentlemen , I 'd need help to build a kernel wich be abble to boot via the network (ethernet LAN) for diskless stations . Stations are Sun Ultra5 . The boot server is a x86 . I dont use debian sparc but gentoo sparc , but i heard i would need elftoaout and/or piggyback64 (those tools are from the debian project) to build the netbootable kernel ... searching on google i did not find great tutorial or documents that explains me what to do and what it does when i do it ... ( may be i searched the wrong way) Would you help me to build it ? i already have _the_ kernel image embeding nfsroot support , rarp , NIC driver , ... then what is the next step before i upload it to the tftp server ? PS If you have any easy to understand and recent document setting up a tftp-rarp-bootp x86 server i would be glad (my x86 server is runnung slack ... plz dont troll on this :-) ) Thank you in advance for your help .
