Potential Sun E 420R donation (4x450MHz, 4G ram)
There was just a notice of a potential server donation by the University of Amsterdam on a Dutch Debian mailinglist, see the forwarded mail for the specs. Mind the word 'potential', it's not sure this machine will become available. Shipping will be on the costs of the receiver (potentially Debian), not on the sponsor. --Jeroen (not subscribed to either mailinglist) - Forwarded message from Jim Mintha [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:36:35 +0100 From: Jim Mintha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lists.debian.nl] mogelijk server donatie Hoi, Er is een goede kans dat wij een oude server aan iemand kunnen geven. Specs: Sun Enterprise 420R 4GB Memory 4 x UltraSPARC-II 450 MHz CPUs 2 x 18GB Drives cdrom Het moet wel voor een goede doel (debian, of iets vergelijkbaar). Hij is een beetje oude, maar met 4GB een 4 processoren, hij is wel een workhorse. Is er interesse? Er is geen kost, maar tenzij jij in Amsterdam ben, moet je het ophalen. Jim -- Jim Mintha Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Work: +31 20 525-4919 Informatiseringscentrum Home: +31 20 662-3892 University of Amsterdam Debian GNU/Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _There are always Possibilities_ http://www.mintha.com ___ Dutch Debian developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Updating Openboot PROM
Hi, I'm unable to update the boot prom on my Ultra 30. I've downloaded 105930-06 patch from sunsolve.com and I'm using network booting to get the image (flash-update-Ultra30-latest) from a rarp/tftp server in my LAN. The following command: ok boot net:192.168.1.1,flash-update-Ultra30-latest,192.168.1.2 works perfectly and starts downloading the byte stream but at a certain poin it stops donwloading and it prints: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss so the flash update isn't started. What does it mean? How can I avoid this error? Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating Openboot PROM
Hi, I'm unable to update the boot prom on my Ultra 30. I've downloaded 105930-06 patch from sunsolve.com and I'm using network booting to get the image (flash-update-Ultra30-latest) from a rarp/tftp server in my LAN. The following command: ok boot net:192.168.1.1,flash-update-Ultra30-latest,192.168.1.2 works perfectly and starts downloading the byte stream but at a certain poin it stops donwloading and it prints: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss so the flash update isn't started. Yeah, I had the same problem with my Ultra-2. What does it mean? How can I avoid this error? I have no idea what it really means. I only came around that point by installing Solaris on a scratch disk, booting it, copying the patch on that disk and booted it from there. It really needs the filesystem, it seems. However, quite some time after that, somebody suggested that booting the patch over silo could have been possible. If you'll try that out, I would be interested in the results, HTH, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormweg 24 |listening to: Suicide Drive (The Deep Eynde) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Public Pervert (Interpol) Cauchemar (Opération S) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem after install Sarge on Sparc
Hello, I was installed Debian Sarge on a Sun Enterprise 220R, the install process was successfull but after when the server restart, the server say The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. I made a devalias: devalias linux /[EMAIL PROTECTED],4000/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/disk0,0:a And then ok boot linux But appear the same error. Help me
Re: Updating Openboot PROM
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 19:45 schrieb Ulrich Teichert: works perfectly and starts downloading the byte stream but at a certain poin it stops donwloading and it prints: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss so the flash update isn't started. Yeah, I had the same problem with my Ultra-2. It worked fine on an Ultra60. What does it mean? How can I avoid this error? I have no idea what it really means. I only came around that point by installing Solaris on a scratch disk, booting it, copying the patch on that disk and booted it from there. It really needs the filesystem, it seems. Mine didn't but there may be many different firmware upgrade softwares from SUN. In addition, where can I download Solaris (8 or 9 or 10) without the Sol10-Registration-Pain: too many detailed questions and a license that I simply did not understand as english is not my first language. However, quite some time after that, somebody suggested that booting the patch over silo could have been possible. If you'll try that out, I would be interested in the results, I tried that before setting up a second computer for network boot but it did not work. Maybe due to the fact that SILO cannot really start a Solaris kernel itself. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating Openboot PROM
It worked fine on an Ultra60. nope, i bought me an U60 from ebay last month. i had an U2 too. there was no problem to flash the U2 via network, but the U60 terminated with the MMU... i think about an memory failure on the U60 because the MMU failure seems to me like an memory adress. so i remove the memory from the U60 and put 4 modules from the U2 into it. after that the flash procedure works fine! but a friend of mine with the same problem on his U60 ... we change the memory modules with the working U2 ones ... the MMU failure still happend! i guess this could be an error on the logic board or something... (i'm not really into the hardware of the Ultras...) thorsten -- (° secure your emails! //\ http://www.die-netzwerker.de/key/gnupg_pub.asc V_/_ KeyID: 0xF5E719DE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating Openboot PROM
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 21:53 schrieb Thorsten Richter: It worked fine on an Ultra60. nope, i bought me an U60 from ebay last month. i had an U2 too. there was no problem to flash the U2 via network, but the U60 terminated with the MMU... i think about an memory failure on the U60 because the MMU failure seems to me like an memory adress. so i remove the memory from the U60 and put 4 modules from the U2 into it. after that the flash procedure works fine! but a friend of mine with the same problem on his U60 ... we change the memory modules with the working U2 ones ... the MMU failure still happend! i guess this could be an error on the logic board or something... (i'm not really into the hardware of the Ultras...) Then I was probably lucky ;) However, the reason for the update was to use two 450MHz modules from an Ultra80 that didn't want to go online anymore. However, all four modules did not work (means: take the two 350 out and put the two 450 in). To make it worse, the RAM from the Ultra80 is to high for the Utra60 (damn power supply). So the only useful things from the Ultra80 were a SCA harddrive and a Raptor framebuffer PCI card with VGA out (but Elite3D with 13W3-VGA already works). :-/ HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem after install Sarge on Sparc
Hello Genaro Mancini, I'm not a sun specialist and excuse my bad english, but maybe I could give you a hint to solve your problem. When does the error message appear? Does this come before SILO is loaded or during loading the kernel? How do you setup your partitions? Do you have the special sun partition with the type whole disk. This partition has to start from the first to the last cylinder and has to be the third partition. e.g./dev/sda3 Which type of filesystem you used for the first partition? If you used LVM or Soft-RAID, you will maybe get problems when it starts from the beginning of the harddisk. You have to set the start cylinder to (maybe) 1 or higher. (Excuse, I forgot at which cylinder exactly it should start) I hope I could help you. Regards Sven Freyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sparc buildd queue - what you can do to help
Hi, Recently a nice web page, summarizing the buildd status for different arches, was pointed out to me. For sparc it can be found at http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/architecture.php?a=sparc There are currently 134 packages listed as 'Building', majority of them are failing due to some reason, and are then re-queued periodically (some packages have been in this state for as long as 40 days!). In most cases the problem is not just going away, so rebuild attempts are just a waste of buildd time. The proper thing to do would be to look at every failing package and try to determine what's the preferrable course of action for it. It might be that it is failing because it's not supported on sparc, or just buggy on all arches, or because there is some genuine sparc-specific bug. Sorting through that and attempting to do the right thing (porting the package, or declaring it as unsupported on sparc, or even removing the package if it's excessively buggy) would be a very appreciated effort. I have my hands full with all the other stuff, but if someone would take initiative, I'd be glad to help. We could discuss the tricky cases on the list and establish some kind of team to work out the sparc porting issues. Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
