Re: Sparc install w/out framebuffer?
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:47:50PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Ok. I've actually got it booting now (thanks to some of you for the > > help > about the serial console bit), but it fails with a Watchdog > > reset. > > > > Did you install parity ram? > > I didn't install anything; it was running SunOS fine, and I rebooted it, > and typed "boot sd(,6,3)" at the ok prompt. Is linux more picky about ram > parity than SunOS 4? No; non-parity ram won't boot sunos at all, while linux works with it. I have however seen that watchdog error when you run without parity RAM (the PROM also bitches when it starts up, and it won't auto-boot). You might try: false to watchdog-reboot? at the PROM. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
Re: Sparc install w/out framebuffer?
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:16:33PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/debian/disks-sparc/ > > Ok. I've actually got it booting now (thanks to some of you for the help > about the serial console bit), but it fails with a Watchdog reset. > > Clues? Did you install parity ram? -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
Re: Sparc install w/out framebuffer?
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > Ok, let's try this again -- Unplug the keyboard! :> > > Ok. How do I send Stop-A from inside kermit? Serial equiv is to send a BREAK. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
Re: Want some info on what SparcServer1000 is
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:26:59PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> I have been building a cluster with lots of machines mixed together,
> almost just for fun, and been installing Slink on
> SparcStation 5/10/20 SparcIPX SparcClassic via RARP/TFTP/nfs.
>
> However, I have 3 machines which claim to be SparcServer1000 (and big).
> They don't seem to want to boot on SUN4M or SUN4C.
> Does anyone have any clue as to what these are and what they want
> (for the boot image)?
>
> I tore it apart, and I think they have SuperSparc. It *seems* as if it is
> dual SuperSparc SMP, and has 4 500Mb drive.
> It's a shame to trash this machine.
>From the hardware guide:
SPARCserver 1000
Processor(s): Mbus modules
Motherboard:501-2336 (2338?)
Bus:XDBus; SBus @ 20MHz, 3 slots/motheboard;
Mbus, 2 slots/motherboard
Memory: 2G physical, 1M off-chip cache
Architecture: sun4d
Notes: Single XDBus design with "curious L-shaped
motherboards". Three SBus slots, onboard FSBE,
512M, two CPU modules per motherboard. Four
motherboards total, or a disk tray with four
535M 1" high 3.5" disks (1G disks supported
recently). Code name "Scorpion". 135 MIPS. First
supported in Solaris 2.2 (SunOS 5.2).
model MHz SPECint92 SPECfp92 SPECint SPECfp
- --- - -Rate92--Rate92-
1102 50x2 2730 3681
1104 50x4 5318 7076
1108 50x81011312710
So, try sun4d.
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http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die.
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Re: console-data question
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:13:37PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > x UK > x > x Finland > x > x France > x > x Germany > x > x Russia > x > x Spain > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:57:23PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > When I just upgraded, console-data asked me what sort of keyboard I had > > > (type 5) and what keyboard layout (US) However, US was not an option, > > > so I choose UK. Now I don't know where my " | "(thats a pipe) is > > > anymore. Did I get the wrong version of some package? How do I tell it > > > to use US keymappings? > > > > dpkg-reconfigure -fdialog -plow console-data Yeah, looks like a bug in console-data package for non-x86 architectures. Try running this: /usr/sbin/install-keymap /usr/share/keymaps/sun/sunkeymap I don't have an installed sparc box handy, so you should probably handle submitting a bug about console-data not having all of the keymaps that are available in its config script. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
Re: console-data question
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:57:23PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > When I just upgraded, console-data asked me what sort of keyboard I had > (type 5) and what keyboard layout (US) However, US was not an option, > so I choose UK. Now I don't know where my " | "(thats a pipe) is > anymore. Did I get the wrong version of some package? How do I tell it > to use US keymappings? dpkg-reconfigure -fdialog -plow console-data -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
Re: read write ufs from Linux
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 11:39:41PM +0200, Martin Bruns wrote: > Hallo, > > I just install Debian-sparc on a Ultra 5. The Linux System is currently on > /dev/hda8 and booting the Linux system is no problem via tftp. But I want to > boot the Solaris system as well, therefore I need to move the /boot directory > below the 1GB boundary i.e. the first partition. > > The Problem is as follows. /dev/hda1 is a ufs system (I have no idea of the > ufstype). I mounted the partition and can read from it but I'm not able to > write to it. Is there a special option to mount program in order to get write > permissions. I have tried the --o remount = rw options but it didn't work. > > Many thanks in advance. > Martin You need to compile a new kernel with the experimental read/write ufs option. Note that this might thrash your filesystem, it's an experimental device driver. Unfortunately I haven't been keeping up to date on the sparc port, so I can't advise you as to a good new kernel to use. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_
Re: Parallel Port for Sparc IPX?
And thus spake Ryan Kirkpatrick, on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 06:42:53PM -0500: > To get right to the point: Does a parallel port SBUS card exist > for the Sparc? IPX specificly? If it does, where is the best place to go > looking for one? You can probably find an OEM sun card somewhere on sun.com; for third party parallel ports you might try: http://www.SPARCproductdirectory.com/printer.html -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necromicon_
Re: Ethernet cards, Gfx programming
And thus spake Elie Rosenblum, on Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:59:24AM -0400: > If you have a newer sun with PCI, you can use DECchip tulip cards and > the like, if you're using linux. Lest someone take that literally, I mean if you're willing to make the driver work on sparc kernels... -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Developer / Mercenary / System Administrator - _The Necromicon_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet cards, Gfx programming
And thus spake Anders Hammarquist, on Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 03:41:37AM +0200: > First, as Dave said, you may want to consider things other than > Ethernet. For many machines FDDI is probably better if you want > predictable throughput. FibreChannel might also be something to look in > to. Sun also sells a quad fast ethernet on a single SBUS or PCI card, and a gigabit ethernet card (the Gbit card is only available for UE or U2 systems though). > >Is it possible to use two 100Mbit Ethernet cards in a Sparc5? > >(what's the throughput? caveats?) > > Shouldn't be any problem, the SS5 has 3 SBus slots (you loose one > for your framebuffer card which leaves 2 for 2 Ethernet Cards), and > there is plenty of bandwidth in the SBus. I would recommend the quad HME card. :) > >Are there 3rd-party companies selling cheap(er) 100Mbit cards for > >Sparc5? (in Europe, preferably) > > I don't know of any off-hand, but I would expect so. I know a guy how > sells 3rd-party sparc gear, I can ask him if you're interested. If you have a newer sun with PCI, you can use DECchip tulip cards and the like, if you're using linux. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Developer / Mercenary / System Administrator - _The Necromicon_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New boot disks work!
And thus spake Eric Delaunay, on Thu, May 28, 1998 at 11:11:47PM +0200: > Yes, I know of this problem. To automatically eject the rootdisk, I need to > detect if the system is booted off floppy disk or not. Is there a way to do > this ? There's no way to tell where the kernel came from that I know of, but /proc/cmdline will tell you what device it's using as its root FS... I'm not sure what it would look like if it's netbooted, though. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Developer / Mercenary / System Administrator - _The Necromicon_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: silo problem
And thus spake Davide Barbieri, on Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 08:24:43AM +0100: > I'm not confident that I will able to do it :-) > > I had already try that way, but silo lacks these functions: > str* > mem* > ext2* > udiv, umul, urem and probably others... If you require having glibc around to build, you can just extract the object files you need from /usr/lib/libc.a using ar. You can then link silo using either a mini-libc you ar up from those, or just link directly with the object files. Or you could grab the source files from glibc. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Developer / Mercenary / System Administrator - _The Necromicon_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xserver package wanted
And thus spake Gergely Madarasz, on Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 07:18:38PM +0100: > AFAIK Mark Eichin is working on them. In the meantime I use the X server > from redhat. Unfortunatelly I had to install the redhat font packages too, > because it wouldnt start with the debian font packages. It worked fine for me without the redhat fonts when I pointed the fontpath at another machine on my network running a font server. And with a slow SS ELC, I'd rather have another box do my font scaling anyway. :) -- Elie Rosenblum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is not dead which can eternal lie, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And with strange aeons even death may die. Developer / Mercenary / System Administrator - _The Necromicon_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
