Re: How to use a serial console on Ultra 1?
John, Booting to serial console is just an alternative. If you want to verify your hardware before you install Linux, you can just boot up your Ultra 1 with Solaris Installation CD. You should be able to verify your keyboard/video/hard disk at minimum. As far as console, minicom works really well from Linux or tip if you have another Solaris box. Just be sure you are using a null modem cable with 8N1 (8 bit/No parity/1 stop bit) setting at 9600 baud. Alex John Zbesko wrote: Thank you for your reply. What I haven't found is instruction on what software to use to actually make the connection. I could use an example, like, open a terminal on the laptop, run minicom (?), set minicom to vt100 emulation, connect to the com port, etc. I would not be so noobie-like, if everything were working fine, but if I'm trying to diagnose a problem, then I need to determine if something is broken, rather than learning how to use a serial logon. Any suggestions or links would be greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc video problems
On 3/31/2006 3:44 AM, Gary Parker wrote: Admar Schoonen wrote: FYI, the U5 has the same openprom as the U10. The 'setenv output-device screen' command only affects the Creator3D card (if yopu have one) in an U10 and has no effect on the output of the VGA ATI display adapter on either the U5 or U10. Wrong. You can change the default resolution at the open boot prompt, as documented at http://040.digital-bless.com/texts/Unofficial_Sun_Blade_100_FAQ.htm (search for output-device on that page). According to that page, 1152 x 900 at 76 Hz is the default resolution. I respectfully beg to differ. That may be the case for Blade100's but my Ultra10 flatly refused to display anything from OBP on a TFT I have and no amount of fiddling with the output-device settings fixed it. Once booted into Linux, however, fbset allowed me to set it up properly and get a prefectly usable 1024x768x60 display. Whether this behaviour is specific to a certain revision of OBP or not I don't know, ymmv. Gary I have Creator 3D in my Ultra 10. I am running it with 1280x1024x67 on my LCD. I booted Solaris via the serial console then ran ffbconfig to find out all combination of supported resolution/frequency. That is the only one works on my LCD. Perhaps, you might want to find out what your hardware is capable of before you can change your setting. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help on minicom
Sparc hardware will send console to serial A automatically if the keyboard is not connected. Make sure you unplug the keyboard. On 11/22/2005 12:18 PM, Marc Coevoet wrote: Op 22-nov-05 om 12:54 heeft Turbo Fredriksson het volgende geschreven: Are you using port A (first serial port) on the SPARC? if not, what port have you/is specified as 'output-device' and/or 'input-device'? I'm trying to install a sparc 20, that has no monitor .. So I can't do much, I see a login: appear on eth , but of course, I have no login/pass .. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: Deb on Sparc Station 5 / monitor interface
On 8/15/2005 11:37 AM, John Bowden wrote: On Monday 08 Aug 2005 10:42, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: Dear listmembers, I have *very* positive experience using the Raritan Adapter: 1395 Raritan Sun VGA-Konverter 13W3-D-Sub 15 with any PC-standard monitor that does not understand sync on green. Take care Dieter Jurzitza I want to run the sun monitors on my other pc's as the SS5 will be clustered and I don't need a monitor on each SS5 unit The problem is not technically feasible. The question is whether it is a economically sound decision. The 13W3 to HD15 VGA adapter runs about $15 (OEM) to $40 (Sun). You can buy a new 17 monitor around $50. I am aware of 2 types of monitor (GDM-17E10 GDM-17E20) which packaged with the SS5. The resolution of both monitors max out at 1280x1024. Its best resolution is at 1152x900. Very few VGA adapters support 1152x900. If you are happy with such resolution, search this 13W3 to PC / VGA adapters with google. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on mknbi
The netboot package includes /usr/bin/mknbi-linux. I don't know if this is what you are looking for. Keep in mind that the Sparc hardware can only handle a.out binary on netboot. After your kernel compilation, you need to run elftoaout on your uncompressed kernel before you put it out in your tftp server. I don't know if there is any integrated packages to make the task easier. I just started playing with this couple weeks ago. You can use the kernel doc initrd.txt and the program piggyback64 to create your boot image. If you are not building sparc64 kernel, you use piggyback instead. Alex On 11/19/2004 12:21 AM, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: Dear listmembers, are there any plans ongoing to issue a release of mknbi and imaggen for sparc? I was not able to compile mknbi because the source is set up for i386. If not, can anyone of you tell me how to create a net-boot image for a U60 on my own (which tools are required ... make bootimages for dummies or so ... ) Many thanks for your inputs, take care Dieter Jurzitza
Re: ultra1 creator system freeze after terminal detach
It sounds like hyperterm sends out a break signal during disconnect. There are several ways to correct your problem. 1. Figure out how to disable the sending of the break signal from hyperterm or use other terminal program which does not send out the break signal. 2. You can configure OBP not to react to the break signal. I don't remember how to do this. But this is not a good idea. 3. You can configure the kernel to ignore the break signal. sysctl -w kernel/stop-a=0 On 11/12/2004 12:22 PM, Stefan Bauer wrote: hello, i used a windows box with hyper terminal to connect to my sun workstation via seriel connection (rs232). after finnished the install process i detached the serial connection; reason was a total system freeze of my box. if i restart the connection (from hyper terminal to sun box) i can use 'go' to reactivate the whole box and everything works fine. its a sun ultra1 creator, more infos below: Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), Keyboard Present OpenBoot 3.25, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #8973688. Ethernet address 8:0:20:88:ed:78, Host ID: 8088ed78. OpenBOOT: Release 3.25 Version 0 created 1999/12/03 11:38 OBP 3.25.0 1999/12/03 11:38 POST 3.11.4 1997/05/27 02:26 my question is now, how can i prevent the system freeze? thanks in advance stefan
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On 11/10/2004 10:51 AM, Le grand pinguin wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: Hello list, i just downloaded and burned the iso images of the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message reads: setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) and then a never-ending stream of Segmentation fault follows ... Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? TIA Ralf Mattes Unless you are looking at testing and reporting problems with the new debian installer, your best be will be to download a woody install image and boot from that. Hmm, that's how i started, but unfortunately my woody installation (vers. info Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 Woody - Official sparc Binary-1 CD) doesn't even get this far - it stops during the early boot with a message that claims that the root fs can't be mounted via NFS (???) and prompts me to insert a root floppy (which is kind of hard considering the fact that my box doesn't _have_ a floppy drive. I'd hate to have to install a floppy just to install Debian). Thanks RalfD After you install the base system, do a dist-upgrade and you should be ready to go. If you just want to get back to work, this is the way to go about it. Good luck, Tomislav Renic Are you trying to do a netboot installation? If you just boot from the cdrom without any parameter, the kernel will not try to do NFS mount. If you are doing netboot, which tftpboot.img did you use? I just finished my netboot installation, the kernel does not do NFS mount. I manually selected it during the installation.
Is there such a thing Sparc diskless firewall/router?
I used to run a Sparc Classic as my Firewall/Router. Recently, the hard disk died. I am wondering if anyone has any pointer to diskless Sparc Firewall/Router. Most of the Linux Firewall/Router projects expect your hardware to be Intel. Just wondering if such thing exist on the Sparc platform. Is there any Sparc Live CD similar to the Intel Knoppix? The terminal server of Knoppix can accomplish what I want. This is why I am looking something like Knoppix. Any pointer is appreciated. Thanks. Alex
Re: Trying to use ipmasqadm
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, David Demland wrote: I am trying to use port forwarding on my Sparc 5. It has a 2.2 kernel. When I try to use the command: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -R 10.0.0.253 1723 -L 192.168.1.5 1723 I get the message: portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument When I do: ipmasqadm portfw -l I get the messages: Could not open /proc/net/ip_masq/portfw Could not open /proc/net/ip_portfw Check if you have enabled portforwarding What have I not configured right to get the port forwarding to work? Thank You, David Demland In the default kernel, Port Forward is neither compiled in nor compiled as module. You can proceed with this link and compile your kernel. It is not a lots of reading (only a few paragraphs). http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-post-install.en.html#s-kernel-baking Kernel compilation is not that bad. Only a few commands.
Re: Problem with Happy Meal drivers
On 1/11/2004 5:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:58:17AM +0100, bath66 wrote: Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] was quoted as saying by some wrong mail agent operated by Mr. bath66 who should know better Before you turn off the PC that is connected to the Sun's serial console, remove the cable from the sun. That way, the sun will stay running and you won't have these problems. Thanks for the conseil .. It work now ... but can you explain me why ? A break signal on the sun serial port drops it into the openboot prompt. 'go' restarts it where it left off. In rs232 a break is signaled by holding the line low for longer than 10 bit times (therefore it cannot be a valid byte b/c a valid byte would have ended with a high stop bit at the 9th bit[1]). Some PCs inadvertently drive TX low for that long as power goes down. There isn't much you can do; I even tried lowering the baud rate and even as 1200 the PC's signal was long enough to act as a break. -Nicolas Dade [1] assuming 8N1; the principal is the same with other data settings--- a break is unambiguously not a data transfer Run this command to over come the hardware BREAK signal: /sbin/sysctl -w kernel/stop-a=0 The above is the same as Solaris /etc/default/kbd with: KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable
Dual boot between Linux and Solaris yielded spurious interrupt msg
In setting up dual boot on my Sparc Classic between Linux and Solaris, I encountered this message: Boot options: [1] Linux Kernel 2.4.21 [2] Solaris 9.0 SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-08 32-bit Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. spurious interrupt at processor level 10 What is this spurious interrupt? This is my silo.conf: $ cat /etc/silo.conf partition=2 timeout=80 message=/boot/message.txt root=/dev/sdc2 default=linux read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 alias=1 single-key label=linux other=/iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1 alias=2 single-key label=solaris I tried silo version 0.9.8 and 1.2.5. Both version yielded the same message on the console output. Does anyone have any idea what this is? How can I move forward? I already searched the bug report but this has not been recorded. Thanks for any assistance. Alex
SS5 170 crashed with 2 S-Bus Happy Meal
The SS5 170 is my Masquerade machine. It was running solid with Woody before I replaced the second Lance card with the 2 Happy Meals. I was testing to see how much throughput I gain with the Happy Meal. I ran ftp behind the SS5 using an Ultra 2 with Solaris 9. Upload or download would lock up the SS5. I did not get any error from the console since it is running headless nor anything in /var/log. It will not even accept a [Break] key to escape to the OBP. Both Happy Meals are good. I tested them individually in the Ultra 2 and got 9.5MB/s with crossover cable to Windows 2k. Has anyone seem this? Any suggestion what else I should try? Thanks.
Re: Floppy Installation on Sparcstation 1
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ashok Gopalakrishnan wrote: I am trying to install debian on a sparcstation 1 with 16MB of RAM. From ftp.debian.org, in the directory pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-sparc/1998-12-07, I downloaded the files base14-1.bin thru base14-2.bin, resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin and root.bin. Using rawrite2, I copied these to floppies. I then booted the sparc with the 'boot floppy' command and at the SILO boot prompt, entered '/fd;/linux' to start the process. After uncompressing the kernel image and detecting the hardware on the machine, I am prompted to insert the root floppy and press enter. When I do this however, the kernel panics, saying that it cannot mount the root files system. Here are the exact messages: .. Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 floppy 0: Warning disk change called early VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter Upon inserting the root floppy and pressing enter: vfs_read_super: bad magic number 0xf1f9e4ad on dev 2/0 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 2:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom I ran into this problem a week ago. It appears that the file root.bin is 151 bytes short. This is how I fix it. I just appended 151 bytes of zeroes to this file then recreated the floppy with dd. It worked after this. You might want to give it a try.
How to obtain a list of deb packages after [Select] of dselect
I have successfully gone through the floppy base install of the system. I do not want to install via ppp since I only have a 28.8 modem. Is there a way I can obtain the list of needed packages via dselect or apt? So that I can download all of my needed files from an ethernet connection and dump them into my Jazz drive. I am trying to avoid mirroring those binary* directories since I am not about to create a CD. Thanks.
