Re: Ultra 10
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 20:07 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > I have a Ultra 10 that I'm not using anymore. Ofcourse, I can try to > There is one developer (trave11er, Jurij Smakov) in Canada who is > interested to use the machine for debugging and building stuff. > He thinks another developer, joshk, would probably also be interested. > I have no sparc experience myself. I've never heard from traveller, but I've recently seen the name joshk on this list. > If that's OK with you, could you contact me privately (in Dutch ;-) to > work out how I could get the box? I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; if I don't hear from them (or if they aren't interested), I'll mail you (off-list and in Dutch) to discuss the details. Thanks! Koen
Re: Ultra 10
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 18:10 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Koen Vermeer wrote: > > I have a Ultra 10 that I'm not using anymore. Ofcourse, I can try to > You can always mail your offer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I'll email them. There isn't any Sun hardware on the wanted-list, but I'll try anyway. Koen
Ultra 10
Hi, I have a Ultra 10 that I'm not using anymore. Ofcourse, I can try to sell it, but I'd rather support the Debian project with it. So, I'm willing to donate it to the project, but I don't know how to proceed. I want to make sure that the thing is being used by a developer or something like that, and not by someone like me, who just wants it as a toy. Alternatively, I can leave it here and provide access to it, but I'm not willing to leave it on all the time. The machine has a 300 or 333 MHz CPU (I'm not sure), 1 Gb of memory, a Seagate ST34342A, a Creator 3D card (never used it since I don't have a monitor); I can get more details if required. It's currently running Debian stable with some updates from testing/unstable, and a 2.6.9 kernel. So, how and where do I advertise this, and how do I ensure that it will be used to contribute to the Debian project? Koen
Re: all is read-only
Op wo 04-08-2004, om 14:55 schreef Rakotomandimby Mihamina: > Koen Vermeer wrote: > > I had the same problem yesterday. Look in the mail archives how to fix > > checkroot.sh. It's pretty easy. > I searched but did not find ... google had not the time to archive it, I > guess... would you help me to find the relevant thread please? Start google, type 'checkroot.sh sparc', and click on the first link that shows up. To apply the fix, start with typing something like 'linux single' on the silo prompt, enter your password on the prompt, remount / (something like 'mount -o remount,rw /') and change the two lines in checkroot.sh according to the fix. Sorry, I cannot make it much easier than this... Koen
Re: all is read-only
Op wo 04-08-2004, om 09:43 schreef Rakotomandimby Mihamina: > All passed ... but when rebooting, the root FS is read-only so that > nothong can launch ... (removing tmp files cant'be done because of FS > read-only, no deamons can be launch because of FS read-only, ...) I had the same problem yesterday. Look in the mail archives how to fix checkroot.sh. It's pretty easy. Koen
Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 07:45, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Has anyone gotten a version of 2.6 to boot on any Ultrasparc hardware?
> I've been using the latest kernel (2.6.0 through 2.6.4) with the latest
> toolchain in testing to compile it, yet it doesn't boot... the last time
> I tried it, it spit out a bunch of whitespace to my serial console, and
> then froze the machine (couldn't break back to OpenBoot).
I'm running 2.6.4 on my Ultra10:
Linux blue 2.6.4 #1 Fri Mar 19 14:26:09 CET 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux
I compiled my own kernel ('sparc64 make-kpkg kernel_image' or something
like that). I think I also get the whitespaces, but it doesn't seem to
matter; the machine continues booting after spitting out all these
spaces. I login with ssh, and only use the serial console when something
is wrong (such as boot problems etc.).
If you want me to, I can email you my kernel config file and a list of
installed deb packages.
Koen
RE: PCI USB Cards
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 23:43, Martin wrote: > > > Just about any off-the-shelf PCI USB card will work, so long > > > as it is a > > > OHCI or UHCI based chip(which is like 99% of them out there). > > I was actually thinking more along the lines of *anything* PCI based, i.e. > > sound cards, It isn't much, but I just added a 2-port LPT PCI card to my Ultra10 (I was having troubles with printing), and it worked without any issues. PCI parallel port detected: 14f2:0121, I/O at 0x1fe02000478(0x0) parport1: PC-style at 0x1fe02000478 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] PCI parallel port detected: 14f2:0121, I/O at 0x1fe02000578(0x0) parport2: PC-style at 0x1fe02000578 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] Koen
Re: auto poweroff - keyboard dependency?
Op ma 08-03-2004, om 01:58 schreef Eric Brower: > Janos Sziliczi wrote: > > This tends to hit the list once every few weeks. > In both sparc and sparc64 the kernel will not power-off systems that are > running with a serial console-- instead they are dropped to OBP (2.2.x > did not act this way). I believe Pete was going to remove this "safety > measure" in sparc a while back but I don't believe it has been done. I agree with you that this should be removed. IMHO, it's a simple bug. If I type poweroff, I expect the system to do what is described in the man pages. And even if the man pages were updated to reflect the current behaviour, I would opt for an added command-line parameter so that I can poweroff the system if I want to. Koen
