BogoMIPS
Does anyone know why the BogoMIPS value on my SunBlade 100 is shown as 11.11 instead of the correct value, when running a 2.6.x kernel? This is not Debian specific at all, I had the same problem under Gentoo... Just wondering what causes it. -- . | Daniel Liikamaa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BogoMIPS
On ons, 2006-09-13 at 17:01 +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: What is your cpu frequency? Is it still 500 MHz? cpu : TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) fpu : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU prom: OBP 4.17.1 2005/04/11 14:31 type: sun4u ncpus probed: 1 ncpus active: 1 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 Cpu0Bogo: 11.12 Cpu0ClkTck : 1debe980 MMU Type: Spitfire Hard to tell from this... This is while running 2.6.17.9. BTW: linux-image-2.6.17-2-sparc64 would not boot up on my blade 100; it stops just before it should initialize the framebuffer). Anyone else with this problem? (Or with a blade 100 which does run 2.6.17?) I had that problem also... I enabled atyfb with mach64 support in the kernel, and also pci framebuffers, all under graphics support in the device driver section, then it worked. Oh yeah, I always compile my own kernels, I kinda dislike the whole module thing, I want everything I need compiled into the kernel and everything I don't need not compiled at all. -- . | Daniel Liikamaa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
You can boot the machine without keyboard/mouse even if you don't connect a null modem cable to the serial port. You just won't have a hardware console, that's all. This has worked with my Ultra10 and my SB100, which I have run as firewalls in my closet. :) Daniel On tis, 2006-08-22 at 18:44 +, Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, no problem. Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should work. This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search on that will get you loads of info. cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote: Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Silo, Lilo, Grub and a new kernel
On ons, 2006-08-16 at 18:05 +1000, John wrote: Hi, I have an Ultra 5 running Debian Etch on 2.4.18. It uses Silo as I've never been game to change it to Lilo or Grub on the basis 'if it aint broke, don't fix it!' I've just compiled and installed a brand new kernel 2.6.16. (vmlinuz is still pointing at 2.4.18) Q. How do I get Silo to offer me the choice of kernel on boot? (I don't want to be left hung out to dry if my new kernel has a panic) TIA John You can't run lilo on a sparc, silo is the sparc alternative, so to speak. And as for your question; you just relink vmlinuz to your new kernel and reboot. Silo works a little bit like grub, you don't have to reinstall the boot sector every time you upgrade your kernel. Oh, and you can gzip the kernel if you like, make on the sparc doesn't do this itself, that's why the kernel it produces is called vmlinux and not vmlinuz. :) Hope this helped you. //Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X.org and kernel problems on SunBlade 100
I've managed to install Debian etch on my SunBlade 100, but now I can't get X to work properly. I've set the resolution to 1600x1200 in xorg.conf, but when I start X, the resolution is set do 320x240 or something like that, it's not pretty. The only error message I get is Module mach64 not found, when it tries to load a kernel module (?!). The graphics card is an ATI Rage XL, the standard card for these machines. How can I get it to show decent resolutions? Also, to make the Type6 USB keyboard work properly in X, do I have patch the source and then compile x.org by myself? This is the only solution I've come across when googleing. My xorg.conf file is generated with the Xorg -configure command. Oh, one last peculiar thing... The CPU was said to have something around 1048 BogoMIPS when I booted the system with the out-of-the-box kernel, but when I compiled and booted the latest kernel, the BogoMIPS are said to be 11.11, a somewhat large difference. Any ideas of what could cause this? -- . | Daniel Liikamaa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation failure on SunBlade 100
Uwe A. P. Würdinger wrote: Xavier Poinsard schrieb: I had the same problem and I managed to get rid of it by booting with OpenBoot diagnostics options. See Sun documentation for exact syntax. Maybe that's it as I ran it out of habbit with diagnostics options from the start d'oohh Actually, this didn't work for me, but when I did set-defaults to clear out the diag mode and then tried to boot from the CD, it suddenly worked. Must have been some strange setting that I didn't see. Well, thanks!! :-) -- . | Daniel Liikamaa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation failure on SunBlade 100
I'm trying to install Debian on a SunBlade 100 machine, but it won't boot off the CD like intended. When it tries to load the kernel, the machine crashes and exits to the ok prompt. The error message is only this: sabre_irq_build: Wacky INO [3f] I've tried stable, testing and daily build cd installers, same result with all. I understand this is a common problem, but I haven't found any solutions yet. Any help would be appreciated. I have the latest OpenBoot and Flash PROM version, by the way. -- . | Daniel Liikamaa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation failure on SunBlade 100
Uwe A. P. Würdinger wrote: Daniel Liikamaa schrieb: I'm trying to install Debian on a SunBlade 100 machine, but it won't boot off the CD like intended. When it tries to load the kernel, the machine crashes and exits to the ok prompt. The error message is only this: sabre_irq_build: Wacky INO [3f] I've tried stable, testing and daily build cd installers, same result with all. I understand this is a common problem, but I haven't found any solutions yet. Any help would be appreciated. I have the latest OpenBoot and Flash PROM version, by the way. Just made a net install installation on my Blade 100 yesterday I used that image http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-sparc/current//images/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img Just follow the install dokumentation http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s04.html I wnet for the RARP TFTP route because that way I don't have to care about the dhcp server configuration :-) I have tried to do this all day, and finally I got it to load the image off the network... But then I got the same IRQ error message as it did when loading from CD, and it crashed again. It seems like I have an actual problem here. :-) Any ideas? -- . | Daniel Liikamaa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
