Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
Ok, i'll ckeck the silo manuals. But what about the problem with the sarge installation CD - a segfault during init isn't realy a nice thing ... Any idea what kernel it boots ? This sparc box and 2.6.x really hate each other, resulting in hangs and other not so nice things. Igmar
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: Ok, i'll ckeck the silo manuals. But what about the problem with the sarge installation CD - a segfault during init isn't realy a nice thing ... Any idea what kernel it boots ? Not at the moment, but i can check if this is of any help. But the segfault shows up in the middle of boot (and i got the impression from an earlier answer that trhis is a known bug). This sparc box and 2.6.x really hate each other, resulting in hangs and other not so nice things. Well, i'll find out soon. I took the easy way and switched to a network installation (using rarp and tftpboot). I got a nice and (slow)running woody. After that i did a dist-upgrade and had a night of dependency hell (circular dependency libc6 - kernel-image-2.4 - initrd - - libc6). Having to use ar and tar to get my little toy into working condition isn't really what i'd expect from a packaging system. BTW, what would be the appropriate place to report such problems. I'm not sure whether this is an issue of the libc6 package (that checks for the kernel version during installation (???)) or for apt/dpkg. Thank's a lot for your help RalfD Igmar
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 13:08 schrieb Le grand pinguin: Well, i'll find out soon. I took the easy way and switched to a network installation (using rarp and tftpboot). I got a nice and (slow)running woody. After that i did a dist-upgrade and had a night of dependency hell (circular dependency libc6 - kernel-image-2.4 - initrd - - libc6). Having to use ar and tar to get my little toy into working condition isn't really what i'd expect from a packaging system. BTW, what would be the appropriate place to report such problems. I'm not sure whether this is an issue of the libc6 package (that checks for the kernel version during installation (???)) or for apt/dpkg. You probably simply have to install kernel-image-2.4.26 before dist-upgrade. BTW: I used an external CD-ROM drive with my SS20 clone and installed just fine from CD1-20040921 (not netinst). HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: Hello list, i just downloaded and burned the iso images of the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message reads: setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) and then a never-ending stream of Segmentation fault follows ... Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? TIA Ralf Mattes Unless you are looking at testing and reporting problems with the new debian installer, your best be will be to download a woody install image and boot from that. After you install the base system, do a dist-upgrade and you should be ready to go. If you just want to get back to work, this is the way to go about it. Good luck, Tomislav Renic
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: Hello list, i just downloaded and burned the iso images of the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message reads: setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) and then a never-ending stream of Segmentation fault follows ... Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? TIA Ralf Mattes Unless you are looking at testing and reporting problems with the new debian installer, your best be will be to download a woody install image and boot from that. Hmm, that's how i started, but unfortunately my woody installation (vers. info Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 Woody - Official sparc Binary-1 CD) doesn't even get this far - it stops during the early boot with a message that claims that the root fs can't be mounted via NFS (???) and prompts me to insert a root floppy (which is kind of hard considering the fact that my box doesn't _have_ a floppy drive. I'd hate to have to install a floppy just to install Debian). Thanks RalfD After you install the base system, do a dist-upgrade and you should be ready to go. If you just want to get back to work, this is the way to go about it. Good luck, Tomislav Renic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On 11/10/2004 10:51 AM, Le grand pinguin wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: Hello list, i just downloaded and burned the iso images of the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message reads: setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) and then a never-ending stream of Segmentation fault follows ... Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? TIA Ralf Mattes Unless you are looking at testing and reporting problems with the new debian installer, your best be will be to download a woody install image and boot from that. Hmm, that's how i started, but unfortunately my woody installation (vers. info Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 Woody - Official sparc Binary-1 CD) doesn't even get this far - it stops during the early boot with a message that claims that the root fs can't be mounted via NFS (???) and prompts me to insert a root floppy (which is kind of hard considering the fact that my box doesn't _have_ a floppy drive. I'd hate to have to install a floppy just to install Debian). Thanks RalfD After you install the base system, do a dist-upgrade and you should be ready to go. If you just want to get back to work, this is the way to go about it. Good luck, Tomislav Renic Are you trying to do a netboot installation? If you just boot from the cdrom without any parameter, the kernel will not try to do NFS mount. If you are doing netboot, which tftpboot.img did you use? I just finished my netboot installation, the kernel does not do NFS mount. I manually selected it during the installation.
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote: Hello list, i just downloaded and burned the iso images of the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message reads: setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) and then a never-ending stream of Segmentation fault follows ... Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? TIA Ralf Mattes Unless you are looking at testing and reporting problems with the new debian installer, your best be will be to download a woody install image and boot from that. Hmm, that's how i started, but unfortunately my woody installation (vers. info Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r2 Woody - Official sparc Binary-1 CD) doesn't even get this far - it stops during the early boot with a message that claims that the root fs can't be mounted via NFS (???) and prompts me to insert a root floppy (which is kind of hard considering the fact that my box doesn't _have_ a floppy drive. I'd hate to have to install a floppy just to install Debian). You probably get the following error: Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, Trying floppy. VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER I have seen other people with this problem but can't think of any solutions to it. I think you can tell silo on the boot cdrom where the root.tgz is located on the CD... Sorry, Tomislav
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:13:25AM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: [...] You probably get the following error: Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, Trying floppy. VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER Yes, that's the one i get. I have seen other people with this problem but can't think of any solutions to it. So i've heard. BTW, the sparc install manual does mention problems with sparc10/20 in section 5.2 Booting from a CD-ROM: Note that some problems have been reported on Sun4m (e.g., Sparc 10s and Sparc 20s) systems booting from CD-ROM. It would've been _awfully_ nice to include a little bit more information - this sentence is of no help at all (is _my_ problem the one that was all- ready reported? If so, i would feel rather stupid to report it once again. But where would i find these reported problems? Mailing list, bugtracker?). I think you can tell silo on the boot cdrom where the root.tgz is located on the CD... Ok, i'll ckeck the silo manuals. But what about the problem with the sarge installation CD - a segfault during init isn't realy a nice thing ... Thanks RalfD Sorry, Tomislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing on a SparcStation 20
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello list, i just downloaded and burned the iso images of the debian installer CD for sparc (sarge-sparc-netinst.iso ). Which one? Unfortunately, the box fails to boot up - the last kernel message reads: setting console mode to unicode (UTF-8) and then a never-ending stream of Segmentation fault follows ... Any ideas what i need to do to get by this problem? This problem has been fixed, rebroken, and refixed. Try a current daily build. (Alternate workaround is to tell d-i not to use the framebuffer, I forget the exact incantation needed.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
