Re: CD malfunction on Sarge "testing" install
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:56, Walt L. Williams wrote: > Greetings > > This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge "testing" > for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to > boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find > the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not > install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. > Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know. This exact problem has been discussed recently in this list, and a related repair to the Sarge installer is in progress. The problem is that the installer did not autodetect the Ultra 2's SCSI controller and did not load its kernel module, so the SCSI CD-ROM drive (and also any SCSI hard drives) are inaccessible. Temporary workaround, at point when you have the "can't find CD-ROM screen": ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a console modprobe esp modprobe sr_mod ctrl-alt-f1 retry to find the CD-ROM drive After this workaround, I was able to do a clean Sarge install on an Ultra 2 SMP box. -- SP > > Walt Williams >
Re: Solaris Emulation How?
"Bob Meader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I coupled the listed solaris shared libs to /usr/gnemul/sunos/usr/lib ^ should be solaris > and the solaris version of 'bash' to /usr/gnemul/sunos/usr/bin . > I changed to directory /usr/gnemul/sunos/usr/bin and > tried to execute the solaris binary bash via ./bash but no go. You don't need to run the Solaris shell, but that should work. I only have Solaris 6 stuff hanging around on this box, but that works: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fx]$ uname -a Linux albion.dl.ac.uk 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:39:17 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] fx]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/solaris/usr/lib ldd /mnt/solaris/usr/bin/uname libc.so.1 => /mnt/solaris/usr/lib/libc.so.1 libdl.so.1 =>/mnt/solaris/usr/lib/libdl.so.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fx]$ /mnt/solaris/usr/bin/uname -a SunOS albion 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fx]$ /mnt/solaris/usr/bin/sh couldn't set locale correctly [EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ uname -a Linux albion.dl.ac.uk 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:39:17 PDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ /mnt/solaris/usr/bin/uname -a SunOS albion 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Re: CD malfunction on Sarge "testing" install
Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge "testing" for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know. Walt Williams 'allo, I had a similar problem one of the times that I managed to get the installer to work. You need to go to the 2nd virtual console, and then do an 'insmod' on a few scsi modules. Look in /lib/modules//kernel/ for the appropriate ones. Its something like sr.o and sg.o and also crc32.o which is used by the sr.o. I can't remember exactly as it was a few weeks ago. And since then I have not been able to use the Debian Installer at all as it dies out at the point where it does remapping of the kernel just after SILO loads the initial ramdisk. cheers, mehul
CD malfunction on Sarge "testing" install
Greetings This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge "testing" for Sparc which I downloaded just last on an Ultra2. I was able to boot from the CD but afterwards it (strangely) could not find the CDROM drive which it booted from and therefore would not install. I didn't know who else to report this to so I posted it here. Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know. Walt Williams
