Re: Debian Sparc installer with raid 1 support
I have been using some of the latest installers and notice that there is now an option within the partitioning menu to create software raid, when I select this option I am told that the kernel does not support it. I'm using Linux software raid1 on a SparcStation 20 with 2 4.5GB SCA disks. It seems to run fine, except that the machine has to resync the root raid with every single boot, and also that SILO bails when booting from the scsi disks. My SILO config is as follows: partition=1 root=/dev/md0 timeout=100 image=1/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=1/vmlinuz.old label=linux.old read-only image=1/vmlinuz.rescue label=rescue read-only When I boot it gets as far as SI and then says Program Terminated. I'm able to boot the machine by using SILO from the debian CD in a somewhat ingenious workaround: boot cdrom /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0;1/vmlinuz root=/dev/md0 ro I'm also having big problems with kernels that can be booted, I tried using the debs from http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ but they wont boot at all. Thanks in advance. --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Linux 2.6 on HyperSparc
Hi there. A few months ago I posted on this list about getting Linux 2.6 to run on a Dual HyperSparc SS20. At that time it was non-functional. Does anyone know of any sites I can look at for more information? --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Re: Losing my mind, RAID1 on Sparc completely broken?
The problem comes in when I make both disks a member of the same array. (in this case, hda2 and hdc2 are members of md1). As soon as I sync the array, I write to it, and it pretty much instantly corrupts. Unmounting md1 and running a fsck on it shows a large number of illegal blocks. md5sums of various binaries on the system are wrong, apt and dpkg's status files get so horribly corrupted that they segfault or refuse to run. All within minutes of even seconds of writing to md device. This is opposite to the problem I have: I have an SS20 with dual hypersparc 125MHz CPU's and dual 4.1GB SCA drives on an espfast controller inside the machine. After getting to a point where I am happy with the Debian installation on a single disk I copied the partition data across to the second disk and started using the failed-disk method to copy data onto the raid. I found that when copying quite a lot of data the kernel will oops, and I had to restart the process several times. I did eventually find I was able to copy the ~1.5GB of install across without oopsing if I added the -u argument to cp (checks if the source file is newer than the target file) - it seems to me that the kernel was oopsing when writing constantly to the raid array, but was okay as long as it was read from quite a lot. Anyway, I have succeeded in getting it all up and running with both disks in the array and using auto-detect to create the raidset at boot time and mounting it as root. It seems to be working okay now, and I haven't noticed any data corruption on my ext3 partition. I am using a home built Linux 2.4.25 kernel. One thing is that SILO now only gets as far as S and then I get Program terminated - I'm not sure what's causing this, but now I have to do boot cdrom /iommu/.;1/vmlinuz root=/dev/md0 ro to start my machine. Anyone have any ideas about what's up with SILO? I have the latest SILO from sarge installed. Cheers. --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Re: Newbie Sparcstation 20 question
try appending video=sbus or video=promcon On 07 Mar 2004, at 20:58, James Nelson wrote: Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hi. On Friday 05 March 2004 21:36, James Nelson wrote: I have a sparcstation 20 I am trying to install 3.0 stable onto, and have a question. The system boots fine from the CD's, but it hangs with a no console found - try passing an init= option error. I have a GX-series SBus video card, and the only thing I could find after quite a bit of Googling around is to use a serial terminal for installation. Is there any way to pass options to the install kernel via SILO so that I can use the Sun keyboard graphics adapter for the system console, or should I go buy a Sun null modem cable? I installed Woody (= 3.0 stable) on some SS20 with SBUS and with onboard graphics, never had to use a serial console ?!? I suggest to check your openboot environment. I don't have access to my SS20's until monday, if you still need help, feel free to contact me. Regards, Hartwig I checked OpenBoot, and even tried the 'reset-defaults' command (after munging the config pretty well) to no avail. I'm baffled - I can't seem to figure out what I'm overlooking... but it's got to be something simple... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Re: auto poweroff - keyboard dependency?
But be warned that if you tell an E150 to power-off you will have great weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth getting it to restart. Rather drop to OBP and pull the power. Seems to make much more sense to let it drop to the OBP and then type power-off if that's really what's needed. --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Re: 2.6.2 on SS20
I'm just about to compile up 2.6 for the first time on my SS20, which has a dual 125MHz ross hypersparc card in it. I've done heaps of 2.6 upgrades on x86 and powerpc, but I thought I had better check for gotyas that other people might have run into - like the fact that CONFIG_PREEMPT=y makes a powerpc machine randomly segfault processes :) 2.6.x SMP won't yet run on sparc32. Keith Wesolowski is working on it (as time permits), so wait, do tests or just try to help woing work. Please also join the sparclinux@vger.kernel.org mailing list. Hi folks. WRT Linux 2.6.x on SS20-MP, I get compile errors when attempting to build an SMP HyperSPARC kernel, just FYI. It just won't work(tm) at this stage. I'm going to try and delve into the code, but I don't like my changes at this stage. Other things that I have come across: kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32-smp package cannot be used because SILO complains that the uncompressed image is too large (Bug #234404). sarge libc6 upgrade doesn't depend on 2.4 kernel, but requires it, leaving libc6* unconfigured until one is installed. (can't find a bug for this, but looks like the libc6 maintainers have more than enough to do without me hassling them) I keep getting Cannot file /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error) when booting. It seems odd because it can read 1/vmlinuz without any problems. Also, I got loads of kernel oopses on 2.4.25 when appending video=sbus:font=SUN12x22 on the kernel command line. Cheers all. --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
Re: 2.6.2 on SS20
One more thing... I'm using an Integrix S20V frame buffer on this machine, and it seems to be detected as a cgthree, when I am sure I have read that it's a cgsix compatible card anyone have any information? --- James Whatever My niece called me Uncle Robot on the weekend! Giant Robot Ltd, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/
