Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
Kent West wrote: I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso. It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss followed by the ok prompt. This appears to be related to cache. I found similar issues on Google (but not Debian/GNU/Linux-related). Apparently certain OpenBootProm (OPB) versions generate this error, and can be worked around by giving the command limit-ecache-size at the go prompt. Unfortunately, my SunBlade 100 doesn't seem to recognize that command. At boot-up, I see the message Open Boot Prom 4.3, so I assume that's the version of OPB I have, which is later than 3.2.21 which seems to be the recommended upgrade to solve this issue. Any one with a solution? Thanks! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Booting Installation on SunBlade
limit-ecache-size reduces the accessible cache size from 8Mb to 4MB on enterprise systems. That was implemented to work around a bug in Solaris 2.6 when the 8MB CPUs (X2580A) came out. Solaris kernel was panicing during CDROM boot with a Fast Data Access MMU Miss error. the workaround was to issue the limit-ecache-size command, boot from CDROM and install a kernel patch to boot regularly from disk. Blade100 is far below that cache size, that could be one reason why the command is not implemented. The Fast Data Access MMU Miss is a rather common error, all I can say since I do not know linux very well is don't stop there... Raoul Volpe Phone (877) 44 SOL EX (Toll Free) Phone +001 407 396-1341 (outside US) Fax +001 586 816 7086 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.solarisexpert.com http://www.solarisexpert.com/ -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:11 AM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade Kent West wrote: I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso. It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss followed by the ok prompt. This appears to be related to cache. I found similar issues on Google (but not Debian/GNU/Linux-related). Apparently certain OpenBootProm (OPB) versions generate this error, and can be worked around by giving the command limit-ecache-size at the go prompt. Unfortunately, my SunBlade 100 doesn't seem to recognize that command. At boot-up, I see the message Open Boot Prom 4.3, so I assume that's the version of OPB I have, which is later than 3.2.21 which seems to be the recommended upgrade to solve this issue. Any one with a solution? Thanks! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss followed by the ok prompt. I had the same problem with the ISO on my SunBlade 100. In the end, what I did was setup my debian x86 desktop with rarpd,tftpd,and bootp and then I booted the SunBlade over my home network. That worked fine, and I was able to install Debian and I've been running it ever since, which is been about a month now. For more detailed instructions see: http://sunblade100.wells.org.uk/cache/59.html I also found the Debian install manual helpful, specifically section 4.5 - Preparing Files for TFTP Net Booting http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html -- - Loren Bandiera, CISSP 420 Consulting Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting shooting flies from 100 hundred yards with a paperclip. Use woody. There's a netinst.iso image in the disks-sparc/current/ directory. Thanks for the reply. I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso. It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss followed by the ok prompt. This machine has a winpci card if it matters. Thanks for any help! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting shooting flies from 100 hundred yards with a paperclip. Use woody. There's a netinst.iso image in the disks-sparc/current/ directory. Is that supposed to be on all of the debian mirrors? I can't find it on ftp.debian.org, though maybe I don't know my way around as well as I should. -- Mike Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Support Assistant| Carlson School of Management Office: 1-160 Phone: 6-7909 | University of Minnesota pgpSUpbu5LLAJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Booting Installation on SunBlade
I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. I just got a lab full of SunBlade 100s that I get to play with for a month or two before they go into production for college students. So of course you know I want to try Debian on one of them. So I went to the Debian home page and followed the links to download a Debian Installation CD and burned this image: ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-cd/potato/sparc/binary-sparc-1_NONUS.iso When I turn on the SunBlade, I press Stop-A to get to an OK prompt. I insert the CD and then type boot cdrom. On reboot I get an error of Wrong Magic Number on CD label (or something similar; sorry I don't have the exact message at the moment). I did some searching of the archives, and it seems that maybe booting from floppies/CDs doesn't work on the Sunblades. I tried to follow the tftpboot howto that Paul Heinlein wrote up (http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2001/debian-sparc-200108/msg00063.html), but when I typed boot net I just got a bunch of RARP timed out type errors. My linux box was on a different subnet; I wonder if the tftp protocol doesn't travel across or is blocked at our router? So, two things: 1) Can anyone speak to whether that CD image mentioned above will or will not work on a SunBlade 100? Or perhaps I'm missing some operand to the boot cdrom statement, etc? 2) Can anyone help me out with the tftboot process? Here's what I did on my Debian i386 box: * apt-get install tftpd rarpd * created /etc/ethers and put the SunBlade's MAC address and desired IP address, as so: 0:3:c4:7:34:a8 150.252.167.104 (the MAC address is not correct; I don't have the actual address in front of me at the moment) and made sure the file was world readable * created /tftboot and made sure it was world-readable * copied into that directory the tftboot.img file from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/ (I couldn't find the older 2.3.6 image Paul mentioned in his howto). Made sure it was other readable. * created a symlink to that tptboot.img file within the /tftpboot directory. I named it in upper case letters, converting each octect of the address in /etc/ethers to hex; the result was 96FCA768. I originally had macs04.acu.edu in /etc/ethers instead of the IP, but when I came to this step and realized that Paul said this number was the hex form of the Sunblade's IP address, I figured the two files had to tie together somehow, and that Paul was using reserved DHCP in his situation. Of course, this might be where my problem is :-( * ran /etc/init.d/rarpd restart and etc/init.d/inetd restart * fired up the SunBlade, Stop-A, boot net, timeout errors Thanks for any assistance! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
Having the boot server on a different subnet is definitely part of your problem -- the ARP/RARP requests won't cross subnet boundaries. On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Kent West wrote: 2) Can anyone help me out with the tftboot process? Here's what I did on my Debian i386 box: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting shooting flies from 100 hundred yards with a paperclip. Use woody. There's a netinst.iso image in the disks-sparc/current/ directory. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
