Re: Re: booting a sunblade 100
I'm also having the same issue, missing first character, flicker on some characters, and 2.4 wont see cdrom. I found this out on my gentoo box when I update to a 2.6 kernel, (and deleted my older 2.4x stable kernel) DOH! Tried Debian (and ubuntu) and saw the same issue as gentoo with a newer 2.4x kernel on my sunblade 100. Add video=atyfb:off and boot with the painfully slow sun display, and continue the daily 2.6 build. -Brook Harty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:30:14PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Just an update. The daily netboot is working for me now. Installs flawlessly - my thanks to everyone who has worked on it! I've added sparc to our autoinstall system. Added a few sparc systems to dhcp, changed one architecture line in tftp and poof they're all in sync with the rest of our network. Ah, debian is beautiful. Did you try it again on any 150's ? Sorry for the delay. Alas, no - the 150 I have here in my office won't even power on anymore. I'll have to get another one for testing from storage. Right now I'm stuck dealing w/ a few netapps. Hmmm, wonder if debian will install on those.. ;) -- Sincerely, Matt Dunford Unix Systems Administrator DOE Joint Genome Institute url: http://www.jgi.doe.gov email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 925-296-5844 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: On Nov 7, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Matt Dunford wrote: Hi All, Just an update. The daily netboot is working for me now. Installs flawlessly - my thanks to everyone who has worked on it! I've added sparc to our autoinstall system. Added a few sparc systems to dhcp, changed one architecture line in tftp and poof they're all in sync with the rest of our network. Ah, debian is beautiful. Just for information.. did you get frame buffer problems (i.e. first char missed)? The ide-cd module is working properly? Which build did you use? I still get the buffer problems too, but since the machines are for remote logins only, it isn't an issue atm. I used the daily snapshot of the day that I sent the email. I'll see about booting a few more. I'll have my very own SunBlade cluster in my office in no time. -- Sincerely, Matt Dunford Unix Systems Administrator DOE Joint Genome Institute url: http://www.jgi.doe.gov email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 925-296-5844 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
Riccardo Tortorici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just for information.. did you get frame buffer problems (i.e. first char missed)? For what it's worth, the frame buffer problem I reported involves garbled characters (maybe in addition to the first one being missing -- I can't remember) and also clobbered X if I remember correctly. Anyway, I second the question as I can't try it at present. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
2005/10/25, Matt Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, Has anyone successfully installed debian on a SunBlade 100? I've been trying various netinst images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso I never get to the debian installer itself. The stable complains of cramfs: wrong magic. The current pukes with Remapping the kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss. I've been googling around, reading the documention, trying everything I see other people doing. I've played with various boot params: ramdisk_size=16000, mem=128m, etc. I've got a stack of Blades collecting dust and I'm anxious to get them off Solaris. Any thoughts? With some chance try to boot a netinst for Woody, and select the stable installation from there. I've been able to install Sarge like this when I get errors with official sarge netinst. -- Pooly Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/
Re: booting a sunblade 100
Il giorno 09/nov/05, alle ore 17:58, Dave Love ha scritto: Riccardo Tortorici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just for information.. did you get frame buffer problems (i.e. first char missed)? For what it's worth, the frame buffer problem I reported involves garbled characters (maybe in addition to the first one being missing -- I can't remember) and also clobbered X if I remember correctly. Anyway, I second the question as I can't try it at present. This is a known bug. You can find the attached patch that fixed it for me. Unfortunately this patch didn't find its way to the upstream kernel nor to the debian kernel sources. I just verified that it is needed even with latest linux- source-2.6.14 from sid. Regards, -- Luigi Gangitano -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/924C0C26: 12F8 9C03 89D3 DB4A 9972 C24A F19B A618 924C 0C26 atyfb_xl_gr_try.diff Description: Binary data PGP.sig Description: Questa è un messaggio firmato elettronicamente
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Luigi Gangitano wrote: This is a known bug. You can find the attached patch that fixed it for me. Unfortunately this patch didn't find its way to the upstream kernel nor to the debian kernel sources. Well, it didn't find it's way because I've never seen it before :-). Just to confirm, this is the patch which fixes problems described in 321200, right? I'll make test images including it today or tomorrow, so that people have a chance to test it out and make sure it does not break other systems. I just verified that it is needed even with latest linux-source-2.6.14 from sid. Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
Il giorno 10/nov/05, alle ore 04:33, Jurij Smakov ha scritto: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Luigi Gangitano wrote: This is a known bug. You can find the attached patch that fixed it for me. Unfortunately this patch didn't find its way to the upstream kernel nor to the debian kernel sources. Well, it didn't find it's way because I've never seen it before :-). Just to confirm, this is the patch which fixes problems described in 321200, right? Exactly. This patch was discussed on linux-fbdev-devel on March, and I thought they would push it upstream. :-) I'll make test images including it today or tomorrow, so that people have a chance to test it out and make sure it does not break other systems. Regards, -- Luigi Gangitano -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/924C0C26: 12F8 9C03 89D3 DB4A 9972 C24A F19B A618 924C 0C26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:56:11AM -0800, Matt Dunford wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:24:45PM +0200, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: It seems the current D-I for SPARC is broken for Sunblades. I had exactly your problem on a Sunblade 150 64bits. Try to install it via netboot with the image you can find here: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc64/netboot/ I tried the 2.6 one and it works. There are some issues regarding the frame buffer (first char truncated). Actually I'm working on a kernel customization in order to fix it. I hope it will work on your sunblade as well. Hi All, Many thanks for all of the replies. Booting via tftp definately works. I have yet to get the installer to complete (it always hangs halfway through), but I'm devoting some time to it when there's a pause in work. I've dumped the blade 150 (since it's having some other problems) and am now concentrating on a 100. Hi All, Just an update. The daily netboot is working for me now. Installs flawlessly - my thanks to everyone who has worked on it! I've added sparc to our autoinstall system. Added a few sparc systems to dhcp, changed one architecture line in tftp and poof they're all in sync with the rest of our network. Ah, debian is beautiful. -- Sincerely, Matt Dunford Unix Systems Administrator DOE Joint Genome Institute url: http://www.jgi.doe.gov email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 925-296-5844 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:51:35AM -0800, Matt Dunford wrote: Hi All, Many thanks for all of the replies. Booting via tftp definately works. I have yet to get the installer to complete (it always hangs halfway through), but I'm devoting some time to it when there's a pause in work. I've dumped the blade 150 (since it's having some other problems) and am now concentrating on a 100. Hi All, Just an update. The daily netboot is working for me now. Installs flawlessly - my thanks to everyone who has worked on it! I've added sparc to our autoinstall system. Added a few sparc systems to dhcp, changed one architecture line in tftp and poof they're all in sync with the rest of our network. Ah, debian is beautiful. Did you try it again on any 150's ? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 7, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Matt Dunford wrote: Hi All, Just an update. The daily netboot is working for me now. Installs flawlessly - my thanks to everyone who has worked on it! I've added sparc to our autoinstall system. Added a few sparc systems to dhcp, changed one architecture line in tftp and poof they're all in sync with the rest of our network. Ah, debian is beautiful. Just for information.. did you get frame buffer problems (i.e. first char missed)? The ide-cd module is working properly? Which build did you use? Ric - - Riccardo Tortorici - Linux Registered User #365170 Count yourself @ http://counter.li.org/ ! - -- Encrypted Mail Welcomes GPG key: 0xF3FCE306 available on wwwkeys.pgp.net GPG key fingerprint = C1C4 CA17 5135 8F5C 94C2 3347 4A22 67DB F3FC E306 - -- no1984.org - Stop TCG! - -- HTML email can be dangerous, is not always readable, wastes bandwidth and is simply not necessary please don't send them to me! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDb9fESiJn2/P84wYRAri/AJ4l3zJrvmh+ZhOWQYPZAWmtC5c2nACfc+at FOGTSIhbnHr3cj6UwcUTa1g= =LO5g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:24:45PM +0200, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: It seems the current D-I for SPARC is broken for Sunblades. I had exactly your problem on a Sunblade 150 64bits. Try to install it via netboot with the image you can find here: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc64/netboot/ I tried the 2.6 one and it works. There are some issues regarding the frame buffer (first char truncated). Actually I'm working on a kernel customization in order to fix it. I hope it will work on your sunblade as well. Hi All, Many thanks for all of the replies. Booting via tftp definately works. I have yet to get the installer to complete (it always hangs halfway through), but I'm devoting some time to it when there's a pause in work. I've dumped the blade 150 (since it's having some other problems) and am now concentrating on a 100. -- Sincerely, Matt Dunford Unix Systems Administrator DOE Joint Genome Institute url: http://www.jgi.doe.gov email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 925-296-5844 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Matt Dunford wrote: Hi All, Has anyone successfully installed debian on a SunBlade 100? I've been trying various netinst images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/ debian-31r0a-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/ debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso I never get to the debian installer itself. The stable complains of cramfs: wrong magic. The current pukes with Remapping the kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss. I've been googling around, reading the documention, trying everything I see other people doing. I've played with various boot params: ramdisk_size=16000, mem=128m, etc. I've got a stack of Blades collecting dust and I'm anxious to get them off Solaris. Any thoughts? It seems the current D-I for SPARC is broken for Sunblades. I had exactly your problem on a Sunblade 150 64bits. Try to install it via netboot with the image you can find here: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc64/netboot/ I tried the 2.6 one and it works. There are some issues regarding the frame buffer (first char truncated). Actually I'm working on a kernel customization in order to fix it. I hope it will work on your sunblade as well. Rick - - Riccardo Tortorici - Linux Registered User #365170 Count yourself @ http://counter.li.org/ ! - -- Encrypted Mail Welcomes GPG key: 0xF3FCE306 available on wwwkeys.pgp.net GPG key fingerprint = C1C4 CA17 5135 8F5C 94C2 3347 4A22 67DB F3FC E306 - -- no1984.org - Stop TCG! - -- HTML email can be dangerous, is not always readable, wastes bandwidth and is simply not necessary please don't send them to me! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDXmpgSiJn2/P84wYRAlC3AJwL6QIxN5cDCLBiwXH3TQSz4pNctACggetb m8PnvlKHkP5v20jCVjT1iSA= =c2SV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:57:39AM -0700, Matt Dunford wrote: Hi All, Has anyone successfully installed debian on a SunBlade 100? I've been trying various netinst images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso I seem to recall that there was a post to an unofficial netinst that would work when I asked this question about six weeks ago. If I recall correctly, the netinst on the official images wasn't actually ready for the Sun Blades as we released Sarge. I've helped to get Debian installed on a Sun Blade at work: there were ide problems and intermittent CD recognition problems. In the end, I think we disconnected the CD in order to get the thing to install and did a TFTP boot over the network. Not fun and not ultra reliable. I'd like to try again but this was done in a hurry to meet a fairly urgent deadline. Others also appear to be having problems. One other solution which has worked is to use debootstrap from a Solaris install. This takes considerable application but appears to work fine. I _think_ this way you may have fewer problems. [Floppy, it seems, will never work - something about obscure hardware interfaces and non-standard connections.] Not straightforward: almost enough to put me off Debian on architectures other than Intel/AMD immediately :( I never get to the debian installer itself. The stable complains of cramfs: wrong magic. The current pukes with Remapping the kernel... Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss. I've been googling around, reading the documention, trying everything I see other people doing. I've played with various boot params: ramdisk_size=16000, mem=128m, etc. I've got a stack of Blades collecting dust and I'm anxious to get them off Solaris. Any thoughts? -- Sincerely, Matt Dunford Unix Systems Administrator DOE Joint Genome Institute url: http://www.jgi.doe.gov email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 925-296-5844 -- 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 a sunblade 100
Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:57:39AM -0700, Matt Dunford wrote: Hi All, Has anyone successfully installed debian on a SunBlade 100? I've been trying various netinst images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-sparc-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sparc/current/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso I seem to recall that there was a post to an unofficial netinst that would work when I asked this question about six weeks ago. If I recall correctly, the netinst on the official images wasn't actually ready for the Sun Blades as we released Sarge. I've helped to get Debian installed on a Sun Blade at work: there were ide problems and intermittent CD recognition problems. In the end, I think we disconnected the CD in order to get the thing to install and did a TFTP boot over the network. Not fun and not ultra reliable. I'd like to try again but this was done in a hurry to meet a fairly urgent deadline. Others also appear to be having problems. One other solution which has worked is to use debootstrap from a Solaris install. This takes considerable application but appears to work fine. I _think_ this way you may have fewer problems. [Floppy, it seems, will never work - something about obscure hardware interfaces and non-standard connections.] Not straightforward: almost enough to put me off Debian on architectures other than Intel/AMD immediately :( I'v just finished install a Sarge on Sun Blade 150 with a tftpboot and no problem. -- Sébastien LANGE _(__)_ Secrétaire d'Ornix'-e e -'__,--.__) (° Groupe d'utilisateur (o_o)) //\ des logiciels libres \. /___. | V_/_ dans l'Orne ||| )/ )/ http://ornix.org //_(/_(/_( Registered Linux-User #313144 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting a sunblade 100
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Sebastien LANGE wrote: I'v just finished install a Sarge on Sun Blade 150 with a tftpboot and no problem. Did you use the daily build? Official sarge D-I seems not working booting with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Which kernel are you using? No probs with FB? Neither with ide-cd module? My workaround was to put ide-cd module in blacklist. Ric - - Riccardo Tortorici - Linux Registered User #365170 Count yourself @ http://counter.li.org/ ! - -- Encrypted Mail Welcomes GPG key: 0xF3FCE306 available on wwwkeys.pgp.net GPG key fingerprint = C1C4 CA17 5135 8F5C 94C2 3347 4A22 67DB F3FC E306 - -- no1984.org - Stop TCG! - -- HTML email can be dangerous, is not always readable, wastes bandwidth and is simply not necessary please don't send them to me! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDXrkSSiJn2/P84wYRAjRJAJ4y8yWxm3NYwbso9QQws9+BZd0U5QCeJ3L/ yPhCena3znl++8bJCERne/g= =gQ1U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
