install and upgrade report, sound question

[Magosányi Árpád]

Hi!

I have recently upgraded an SS10 from woody to sarge, and just
installed sarge on a Ultra II.

After noticing in the installation notes the procedure for upgrading the
kernel-libc-initrd-tools-etc circular dependency, the SS10 upgrade went
rather smoothly.

The Ultra 2 shown some interesting behaviour with the CD: she booted from
it, and after that it was unable to mount the cdrom, while cat
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 did gave an output. After reboot, it have worked.

The Ultra 2 have a frame buffer, so I installed X and gnome and etc, and
everything went well. However I have noticed several oopses
seemingly triggered by gnome-settings.

The installer did not update /etc/modules, so after reboot the network
did not stand up. But at least there were no oopses either.

Running xmms, I got the following warnings:
** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT ioctl failed: Invalid argument

** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED ioctl failed: Invalid argument

The sound I hear is either nothing, or sounds like when you cat the
kernel image to /dev/dsp.

I use cs4231 module for audio.

Question: I would like to have xmms (or another program with its
functionality) working smoothly. What to do?
Is it the audio module not accepting the ioctls it would have to,
or xmms issuing the wrong ones?

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Re: Kernel won't compile

[Tyler]

Was there a debian linux question in there somewhere?  Possibly you sent 
this to the wrong list?


Regards,
Tyler.

Nancy Kazmierski wrote:

SO.. What I want to do is simply reinstall Solaris.. I have version 
5.8 in house.. Because of a lack of CDROM I need to jump start from a 
remote server. I realize that the boxes must be on the same subnet (no 
problem).. The solaris box that has a CDROM is currently Solaris 
version 5.8. Here is what I did on the host with the CDROM.
 
   CDROM HOST# share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 /cdrom/cdrom0/s0

   CDROM HOST# share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 /cdrom/cdrom0/s1
   CDROM HOST# cd /cdrom/multi_icd_sol_8_204_sparc /s0
   CDROM HOST# ./add_install_client -i 192.168.1.58 -e 0:3:ba:10:7d:79 
-s gatescan2.pridemobility.com:/cdrom/cdrom0/s0 gatescan1.scranton.com 
sun4u
 
However, when I boot the client server it seems to look for the host 
gatescan2.scranton.com but does not begin install.. It just tells me 
nothing to boot from.. Do you have any experience with remote Jump of 
Solaris.. Is it a problem because my client OS is not the same as the 
remote? I seem to remember reading that somewhere but I cannot confirm.. 
Any Ideas??

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*LAN Administrator*
*University of Scranton*
*IR Desktop & Instructional Resources*
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Re: Re: Kernel won't compile

[Nancy Kazmierski]

SO.. What I want to
do is simply reinstall Solaris.. I have version 5.8 in house.. Because
of a lack of CDROM I need to jump start from a remote server. I realize
that the boxes must be on the same subnet (no problem).. The solaris
box that has a CDROM is currently Solaris version 5.8. Here is what I
did on the host with the CDROM.
 
  
CDROM HOST# share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 /cdrom/cdrom0/s0
   CDROM
HOST# share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 /cdrom/cdrom0/s1
   CDROM
HOST# cd /cdrom/multi_icd_sol_8_204_sparc /s0
   CDROM
HOST# ./add_install_client -i 192.168.1.58 -e
0:3:ba:10:7d:79 -s gatescan2.pridemobility.com:/cdrom/cdrom0/s0
gatescan1.scranton.com sun4u
 
However,
when I boot the client server it seems to look for the host
gatescan2.scranton.com but does not begin install.. It just tells me
nothing to boot from.. Do you have any experience with remote Jump of
Solaris.. Is it a problem because my client OS is not the same as the
remote? I seem to remember reading that somewhere but I cannot
confirm..  

Any Ideas??
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Nancy Kazmierski

LAN Administrator

University of Scranton

IR Desktop & Instructional Resources

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Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

[Jim MacBaine]

On 8/31/05, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way to resume the installation at the point where
> debootstrap failed when it tried to chroot into the sparc file system?

I'm sure this is not the best way, but I got a fairly good-working system by

- booting with init=/bin/bash

and executing:

- dpkg --install --force-depends /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb
- apt-get -f install
- dpkg-reconfigure -a
- base-config

Regards,
Jim

Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

[Martin Habets]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:17:03AM +0200, Jim MacBaine wrote:
> Ok. Shame on me. Just after I wrote that mail I looked into the /dev
> folder of the exported file system and saw it was empty. The server is
> an x86 Debian system. Can someone give me a clue, how to create the
> correct device files for a sparc /dev?

Have not tried this, but I guess use 'MAKEDEV generic-sparc' in your target
directory?

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Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

[Jim MacBaine]

On 8/31/05, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> an x86 Debian system. Can someone give me a clue, how to create the
> correct device files for a sparc /dev?

Ok, solved that one, too.  Copied a /dev from a x86 system, created
/dev/sunmouse manually according the devices.txt from the kernel docs,
created an /etc/inittab manually. When I add init=/bin/bash to the
kernel command line, I get a working bash on the Ultra 5 and can walk
around the file system.

Is there a way to resume the installation at the point where
debootstrap failed when it tried to chroot into the sparc file system?

Another question arised, too: Does mknbi work for sparc64 kernels? The
kernel command line is quite long and i would like to embed it in the
image as I do on x86.  But mknbi-linux tells me:
vmlinux.aout: not a Linux kernel image

Regards,
Jim

Re: [debian-sparc] Running on its side/front? (U1)

[Erwann ABALEA]

Hodie III Kal. Sep. MMV est, Neil Pilgrim scripsit:
> Perhaps a stupid question, but has anyone had any problems with running 
> an ultra-1 with the case on its side (or front)?

I do it that way, my Ultra1 is my firewall machine. I haven't had any
problem, but I placed 2 empty DAT boxes (the little plastic ones)
under it, to allow some air to flow :)
It's running like this since several months (maybe 2 years, I don't
remember well), on a 24x24 basis, even during my vacations.

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Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

[Jim MacBaine]

On 8/31/05, I wrote:

> I got the Ultra 5 so far to load the kernel via tftp and boot it. But
> now I'm stuck at a problem, I seem unable to solve. The kernel mounts
> the nfs root but then complains that it is unable to open an initial
> console:

Ok. Shame on me. Just after I wrote that mail I looked into the /dev
folder of the exported file system and saw it was empty. The server is
an x86 Debian system. Can someone give me a clue, how to create the
correct device files for a sparc /dev?

Regards,
Jim

Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

[Jim MacBaine]

Hello,

I'm trying to make a Sarge system run on an Ultra 5 workstation,
booting from net with root on nfs.  This is what I managed to do
already:

- compiled a sparc64 cross compiler on a x86 system
- cross-compiled kernel 2.6.12 for sparc64
- ran "elftoaout" on the kernel
- set up rarp and tftp server on the server
- debootstrapped and exported a sparc sarge system on the server

I got the Ultra 5 so far to load the kernel via tftp and boot it. But
now I'm stuck at a problem, I seem unable to solve. The kernel mounts
the nfs root but then complains that it is unable to open an initial
console:

[...]
input: Sun Type 5 keyboard on su/serio1
input: Sun Mouse on su/serio0
IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.255.255.0
IP-Config: Complete:
  device=eth0, addr=192.168.17.15, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
 host=192.168.17.15, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
 bootserver=192.168.17.1, rootserver=192.168.17.1, rootpath=
Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.17.1
Looking up port of RPC 15/1 on 192.168.17.1
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex.

Am I missing a kernel config option? I built the kernel with the
OpenBoot PROM console and the framebuffer console compiled in.

Or am I missing a boot parameter? My kernel command line currently
looks like this:

ok printenv boot-file
boot-file = 192.168.17.1:/tftpboot/sunny.aout root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=192.168.17.1:/vol/nfsroot/sunny ip=rarp

Thanks in advance, 
Jim

Re: Running on its side/front? (U1)

[Lewis Balfour]

My Ultra 10 came with 4 rubber feet so you could use it on its side,
and that's how it has been for a few years.  Maybe an U1 is the same.

Lewis