all is read-only
Hello, I just installed a woody 3.0r1 on an Ultra5. Then I changed the sources.list to testing, then dist-upgraded the distro. 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, ...) It is still kernel 2.4.18 (from the woody one) ... how do you suggest me to solve this ? I cant copy/paste you the boot messages because it's not the same machine as the one i write with now Is it a known problem ? ... Thanks in advance for your precious help -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
Re: all is read-only
Figaro, Nicolas wrote: I had the same, this was a hardware error (disk crashed). Do you have another harddisk you can try ?? Oh f$@# ! There's no other possibility ? big smile 'apt-get dist-upgrade' brakes the disk ? because the stable one seemed to boot correctly ... /big smile -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
Re: all is read-only
Admar Schoonen wrote: I had the same problems a while ago. Remounting the filesystem How ? the system doesn't boot till the end ... read/write and then installing a 2.6 kernel hum... I still need to boot correctly first... isn't it? :-) -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
Re: all is read-only
The Undefined wrote: try append at boot to silo rw - it mount rootfs in rw mode. I'll try This is the content of my silo.conf file. partition=1 root=/dev/hda1 timeout=100 image=1/vmlinuz label=linux read-only what havei got to edit to make it possible ? I guess adding rw somewhere ... what a filesystem is at /? xfs? ext2 PS :as well as i could'nt boot with the precedent dist-upgraded system, i did another installation, and now, will ask for your opinion before finally boot (and pray). -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
Re: all is read-only
I re-did another fresh new install, but checking badblocks. I found no badblocks. -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
Re: all is read-only
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? Thank you. -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
[solution]Re: all is read-only
Hi everybody ! :-) These are some (i hope usefull) indications: -The checkroot.sh script was not the same as the one archived by google so that I had to guess how to edit it . I just edited the two lines to have [...] if ! mount -n -o remount,ro / [...] (I'm so sorry, I didnot remember how was the line before I edit it...) and [...] # Remount root to final mode (rw or ro). mount -n -o remount,$rootopts,$rootmode / [...] - I also modified silo.conf : the read-only option - read-write. Now the system boots correctly with the woody 2.4.18 kernel. Thanks to all and see you soon :-) -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/Members/mihamina
help to find a sarge for sun
Hi all, I'm now trying to find where can i download a sarge iso to install Debian on my Ultra5. Looking on the mirror list at debian.org, i did not see explicit links to some sparc port of sarge ... would you help me ? -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://www.rktmb.org/site_principal/Members/mihamina
Re: netboot , need help
3. SLXT is designed to do this for you http://www.pucebaboon.com/SLXT/ unfortunately , it assumes i'm using a kernel with kernel-space rarp . kernel -space rarp support has been dropped since 2.3 versions i run 2.4.25 both on sparcs and x86 . Thankyou for your help . -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
Re: netboot , need help
Eric Brower wrote: Try reading the JavaStation HOWTO http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/JavaStation-HOWTO.html Well, It was a great document to help me to build the kernel . Now , my main problem is to make the NFS root filesystem on the x86 server I cannot use the server FS because clients and server are not the same arch . I guess i should have separate /tmp and /var for each box , but it is not really described in it . Would you have another link that could help me ? -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
netboot image ... OK or not ?
Hello everybody , I have a kernel image freshly compiled on my ULTRA5 box . To make it net-bootable , one of the steps is to donvert it to a.out format . The initial kernel image is image-netboot . I do this : [EMAIL PROTECTED] elftoaout -o image-netboot.aout image-netboot PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x40[0x402bc0] from 0x0[0x315d00] align 0x10 PT 1 Entry: unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well ... I dont know if these messages are error messages , Warnings , or Succes messages ... would you know ? I follow this step : http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/JavaStation-HOWTO.html#KernelBuild-BuildTheKernelSection -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
Re: 2.6.x kernel for Sparc?
Joshua Kwan wrote: sparc32 support is EXTREMELY dodgy at the moment for 2.6.x, And how about sparc64 (those with ultraproc) ? I know i should read the kernel docs but my English is so poor ... -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
netboot , need help
Hello gentlemen , I 'd need help to build a kernel wich be abble to boot via the network (ethernet LAN) for diskless stations . Stations are Sun Ultra5 . The boot server is a x86 . I dont use debian sparc but gentoo sparc , but i heard i would need elftoaout and/or piggyback64 (those tools are from the debian project) to build the netbootable kernel ... searching on google i did not find great tutorial or documents that explains me what to do and what it does when i do it ... ( may be i searched the wrong way) Would you help me to build it ? i already have _the_ kernel image embeding nfsroot support , rarp , NIC driver , ... then what is the next step before i upload it to the tftp server ? PS If you have any easy to understand and recent document setting up a tftp-rarp-bootp x86 server i would be glad (my x86 server is runnung slack ... plz dont troll on this :-) ) Thank you in advance for your help . -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
Re: mount cdrom (newbie)
Marcelo Bruno wrote: Hi, memberlist Hi how does mount cdrom in Sparcstation 4, with solaris 5.5.1? why wouldn't you ask in a Solaris Mailing list ? dont you know here is a _Linux_ one ? :-) -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
Mouse device , graphic card
Hello , I'm very new to this machine ( Sun ULTRA 5 ) and i dont know how to configure X . What i want to dot is to have a working XFree . I just installed Debian SPARC 3.0_r1 on the machine but i think a dont have the X configuration alright because : - I dont know the mouse conf . It is not PS/2 n and i dont know what it is . - I dont know the VGA device . so that i dont know what driver to load . Would you help me ? Thank you . in advance . -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
where and how to get the latest kernel ?
Hi all , i just installed a woody on my sun Ultra 5 i'm looking for a way to make it a bit up to date , to get at least GTK 2 and run a recent gcc (3.3.x ) . I try to find a way to get the latest available kernel , would you know ? i would like to get the sources . i would like to learn no compile + install it the debian way . would you help me on that ? for the moment if i try a apt-get dist-upgrade it gives : Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev-sparc64: Depends: libc6-sparc64 (= 2.2.5-11.5) but 2.2.5-11.2 is installed libc6-sparc64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.2) but 2.2.5-11.5 is installed and whatever the package i try to install it blocks here ... what to do ? -- Rakotomandimby Mihamina Andrianifaharana Tel : +33 2 38 76 43 65 http://stko.dyndns.info/site_principal/Members/mihamina
