Re: Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
Hi Adrien, On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 12:43 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Abou! > > On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 10:27 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I will try again later today. > > it fails with a different error now which indicates that the Lazarus > build system doesn't know about sparc64 as an architecture [1]: > > (9009) Assembling lazbuild > (9022) Compiling resource ../units/sparc64-linux/nogui/lazbuild.or > Error: Unknown architecture 'sparc64' > Error: (9029) Error while compiling resources > Fatal: (10026) There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping > Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted > > Adrian > > > [1] > > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/lazarus_2.2.6+dfsg2-2_sparc64.build.experimental This is great, at least it means that the compiler was fixed. I'll try to fix Lazarus now. Thank you for your help. -- Cheers, Abou Al Montacir signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
Hi Abou! On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 10:27 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I will try again later today. it fails with a different error now which indicates that the Lazarus build system doesn't know about sparc64 as an architecture [1]: (9009) Assembling lazbuild (9022) Compiling resource ../units/sparc64-linux/nogui/lazbuild.or Error: Unknown architecture 'sparc64' Error: (9029) Error while compiling resources Fatal: (10026) There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted Adrian > [1] > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/lazarus_2.2.6+dfsg2-2_sparc64.build.experimental -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
> On May 28, 2023, at 10:13 AM, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > > Hi Adrian, > >> On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 02:10 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 01:25 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Can anyone please, try to rebuild Lazarus on Sparc64 with FPC from experimental and let me know if that is OK? >>> >>> I'll give it a try. >> >> Still fails, unfortunately. >> >> See: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/lazarus_2.2.6+dfsg2-2_sparc64.build > This fails because the build process pulled FPC 3.2.2+dfsg-20 from unstable > instead of 3.2.2+dfsg-21~rc1 from experimental. > One way would be to force FPC version either in the Lazarus control file or > on the machine itself. Odd, I actually preinstalled fpc from experimental in the chroot. But it was late yesterday and I probably mixed up the chroots. I will try again later today. Adrian
Re: Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
Hi Adrian, On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 02:10 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 01:25 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Can anyone please, try to rebuild Lazarus on Sparc64 with FPC from > > > experimental and let me know if that is OK? > > > > I'll give it a try. > > Still fails, unfortunately. > > See: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/lazarus_2.2.6+dfsg2-2_sparc64.build This fails because the build process pulled FPC 3.2.2+dfsg-20 from unstable instead of 3.2.2+dfsg-21~rc1 from experimental. One way would be to force FPC version either in the Lazarus control file or on the machine itself. Will that be OK, or should I prepare an upload of Lazarus to experimental with strict dependency? -- Cheers, Abou Al Montacir signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
Hi! On Sun, 2023-05-28 at 01:25 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Can anyone please, try to rebuild Lazarus on Sparc64 with FPC from > > experimental and let me know if that is OK? > > I'll give it a try. Still fails, unfortunately. See: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/lazarus_2.2.6+dfsg2-2_sparc64.build Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
Hello Abou! On Sat, 2023-05-27 at 20:44 +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > I was trying to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64 for long time. > There was a bug in Free Pascal Compiler that prevented that: > https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/40252 > I manged to make upstream generate a patch for that and uploaded it to > experimental: > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1432268/accepted-fpc-322dfsg-21rc1-source-into-experimental/ Thanks for fixing this bug! > I tried to connect to kyoto.debian.net to test it, but I got timout on SSH > connection. kyoto is unfortunately offline because I lost the place for hosting it and I haven't found a new home for this server yet. At the moment, the machine is sitting in my shelf at home in storage. There is some hope we will have a SPARC-T4 available soon that is currently being set up for the GCC compile farm and that we can get some LDOMs on (SPARC virtual machines). > I've spent the day trying to update my QEMU VM or to install a new one, but > it seems that QEMU version shipped with Bookworm is buggy on Sparc64. > So that to say I completely lost he day without any success. You can use qemu-user which is easier to use: > https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/sbuildQEMU > https://wiki.debian.org/SH4/sbuildQEMU > Can anyone please, try to rebuild Lazarus on Sparc64 with FPC from > experimental and let me know if that is OK? I'll give it a try. > Or at least provide access to a Sparc64 machine where I can do it myself? > > PS: I'm not subscribed to this list, so please keep me in copy. Noted. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Help needed to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64
Hi Sparc Porters Team, I was trying to make Lazarus compile on Sparc64 for long time. There was a bug in Free Pascal Compiler that prevented that: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/40252 I manged to make upstream generate a patch for that and uploaded it to experimental: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1432268/accepted-fpc-322dfsg-21rc1-source-into-experimental/ I tried to connect to kyoto.debian.net to test it, but I got timout on SSH connection. I've spent the day trying to update my QEMU VM or to install a new one, but it seems that QEMU version shipped with Bookworm is buggy on Sparc64. So that to say I completely lost he day without any success. Can anyone please, try to rebuild Lazarus on Sparc64 with FPC from experimental and let me know if that is OK? Or at least provide access to a Sparc64 machine where I can do it myself? PS: I'm not subscribed to this list, so please keep me in copy. -- Cheers, Abou Al Montacir signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: sparc32 etch kernel compile help needed
Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Robert Reif wrote: I'm trying to compile a kernel on etch without success. I first tried a 2.6.21-rc1 and it failed to boot because the image was too large. I next tried the debian source in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18.tar with the same results. Both were configured with the config from /boot. For sparc32 you need to strip the kernel of non-essential parts in order for it to fit into the space reserved for it. It goes approximately like this: cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-sparc32 vmlinux.gz gzip -d vmlinux.gz strip -R .comment -R .note -K sun4u_init -K _end -K _start vmlinux gzip -9 vmlinux mv vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-sparc32 Best regards, Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight. Shouldn't make-kpkg or dpkg --install .deb do this for me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sparc32 etch kernel compile help needed
I'm trying to compile a kernel on etch without success. I first tried a 2.6.21-rc1 and it failed to boot because the image was too large. I next tried the debian source in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18.tar with the same results. Both were configured with the config from /boot. Is the source from debian vanilla or does it have the debian patches already installed? If there something I need to do besides *|make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image and |**|dpkg -i .deb? |* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc32 etch kernel compile help needed
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Robert Reif wrote: I'm trying to compile a kernel on etch without success. I first tried a 2.6.21-rc1 and it failed to boot because the image was too large. I next tried the debian source in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18.tar with the same results. Both were configured with the config from /boot. For sparc32 you need to strip the kernel of non-essential parts in order for it to fit into the space reserved for it. It goes approximately like this: cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-sparc32 vmlinux.gz gzip -d vmlinux.gz strip -R .comment -R .note -K sun4u_init -K _end -K _start vmlinux gzip -9 vmlinux mv vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-sparc32 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]
help needed with X on Ultra II
Hi! I am struggling with configuring X11 on a ultra enterprise II. prtconf -F says: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 the monitor is model GDM-17E10 I am trying it with the suncg6 X driver. With a stock debian kernel-image-2.6.8-2-sparc64 , X does start, but there is a blank screen, and I cannot ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-backspace. Using the serial console, I can run xclock on it, and xlsclient confirms that xclock does run. I can also chvt1 and chvt 7. With a 2.6.13.1 kernel, I cannot even get X to find the device: (II) SUNCG6: driver for CGsix (GX and Turbo GX) (EE) No devices detected. Maybe the following additional information tells you something (note that FB_SBUS option is not present in the 2.6.13.1 config, and as far as I could figure out from the suncg6 source, it depends on frame buffer support.): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot# grep SBUS config-2.6.* config-2.6.13.1:CONFIG_SBUS=y config-2.6.13.1:CONFIG_SBUSCHAR=y config-2.6.13.1:# CONFIG_MYRI_SBUS is not set config-2.6.8-2-sparc64:CONFIG_SBUS=y config-2.6.8-2-sparc64:CONFIG_SBUSCHAR=y config-2.6.8-2-sparc64:CONFIG_FB_SBUS=y config-2.6.8-2-sparc64:CONFIG_MYRI_SBUS=m Using stock debian kernel-image-2.4.27-2-sparc64, X works just fine, when I change the mouse definition to the one which is commented out in the config below. Please tell me what is going on, and how to use X and latest kernels. Thank you in advance. Here is my XF86Config-4, looking at commented out things you can figure what I was trying to change. section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard Option Xinerama yes Option Pixmap 24 EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ # FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load pex5 Load record Load xie Load type1 Load freetype Load bitmap Load speedo EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules sun Option XkbModel type5 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device /dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection #Section InputDevice #Identifier Mouse0 #Driver mouse #Option Protocol auto #Option Protocol mousesystems #Option Device /dev/sunmouse #EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Sun ModelNameGDM-17E10 #HorizSync30-82 #VertRefresh 50-150 HorizSync30-50 VertRefresh 50-70 #Option DPMS EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option NoAccel # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver suncg6 # BusID SBUS:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 #BusID SBUS:/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],10001000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 Option HWcursor yes Option Accel yes EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 8 DefaultFbBpp 24 #SubSection Display #Depth 1 #Modes 1280x1024 #EndSubSection #SubSection Display #Depth 4 #Modes 1280x1024 #EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection #SubSection Display #Depth 8 #Modes 1280x1024 #EndSubSection
Help needed for XF86 configuration for 'Elite 3D' in an Ultra 10
Hi there, I have some problems with bringing my Ultra 10 to life with XFree86 4.1.0.1. I try with the latest (only a couple of weeks (2-4) old) Ultra-Sparc Debian distro, downloaded from my nearest mirror. The system comes up and boots fine, I even receive a Tux during boot (seems atyfb works), but I can't manage to start X with any visible screen. I selected ati for the X server (which should be fine AFAIK), because it's an ATI 3D RAGE (GT) chipset. I have an original Sun 20 Monitor, and the standard mouse, but I'm not sure which resolution would be best to select (Card has 2 MB SGRAM). I know, Sun's default resolution is 1152x960, but I'd like to either have a somewhat higher resolution, or maybe some 3D (as a tradeoff). :-) - I also have no trouble with defining two configurations, one for high resolution and another for 3D. Back to my problem: When I try to start X, I only get a beep and a black screen. - I can kill it with CTRL-ALT-Backspace, but that's almost all. - I've had not too much time this morning before I had to go to work, but as far as I could see in my haste, I could see no real 'Error' in the output (no EE in the messages) . I've even tried different colordepths (24,16,8) which made me able to chose from a wider variety of resolutions (according to the debug output), but still a black screen. Is there anybody who can give me a hint what is going wrong? - What did I miss? BTW: Which is the correct mouse to choose? - I have an original Sun Type 5 keyboard and a 3 key sun mouse with ball (not optical). - /dev/psaux seems to be wrong to me... - Maybe better /dev/mouse or /dev/sunmouse ? Best regards, Herbert
Open kernel-image-2.6.8 bugs on sparc - help needed
Hi, I have started going through the 2.6.8 kernel bugs in an attempt to clean it up. However, in a few cases I don't have hardware to test it or don't know whether the bug is a real one and just configuration problem. If you have any input on problems described below, please share :-). * #275037: writing to a parallel port causes kernel oops. I was able to reproduce it, however it only happens if parport_pc module is loaded. It appears that there are two modules - parport and parport_pc. parport_pc seems to be appropriate for the PC-style parallel port chips and I have no idea whether it should work for sparc as well. With just parport module loaded oops is not happening. Please comment if you have a setup with working printing via parallel port. * #286267: loading snd-sun-cs4231 module fails to create /dev/dsp via udev As a first step I tried making sound work :-) (it appears to work fine for the submitter). With a 2.6.8-2 kernel on Ultra5 with cs4231 card I get the sound using snd-sun-cs4231 module, but it is choppy and corrupted (tried using 'play' from sox package to play wavs and mpg321 to play mp3s). Ironically, alsaplayer fails miserably. I have also tried using the latest ALSA development release (1.0.9rc2) from [0], with identical results. Hence the question, how does one get working sound, if it is possible at all? Comments on the original bug are welcome too, there is a seemingly relevant thread on debian-user [1], but no solution has been posted there. * #305691: cg6 framebuffer seems to be screwed with 2.6.8 kernel. On Ultra1 with cg6 the colors are wrong on console (yellow instead of white in debconf screens for example). Starting X just brings up a blank screen and hangs, no visible errors in the log. I remember that some fixes for cg6 were mentioned on sparclinux mailing list a while ago, but they seems to be relevant for sparc32. Is anyone successfully running X with 2.6.8 and cg6? A working XF86Config-4 file for that setup would be greatly appreciated. With 2.6.10 it just blanks the screen immediately after boot even though booting proceeds normally. [0] http://www.alsa-project.org [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg03044.html Thanks and 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: help needed
I want to setup windows running on my diskless nodes via windows terminal services. You will need rdesktop. By default Windows will not talk anything useful to a Linux client. I configure LTSP server and also created a boot floppy; while booting i get the error mesage that no responce from file, that means the kernel was not found at that perticular location. I assign all the things correctly as per my knowledge and according to the documentation given in ltsp.org so pl help me out from this situation. Also i heard about that there is no need of linux server for this kind of configuration only the things are to be done was create a floppy or bootrom and in windows server create /tftpboot for locating kernel and add hexip file for assigning the ip addresses for the nodes with respective mac address. Ummm... as far as I can see this doesn't have anything to do with Debian or Sparc hardware, thus this is probably the wrong list - try asking the LTSP mailing list. You may well need to give them a lot more details of the setup you are using before anyone can help. Sweet Dreams, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seasons change, things come to pass
help needed
Dear Friends, I want to setup windows running on my diskless nodes via windows terminal services. I configure LTSP server and also created a boot floppy; while booting i get the error mesage that no responce from file, that means the kernel was not found at that perticular location. I assign all the things correctly as per my knowledge and according to the documentation given in ltsp.org so pl help me out from this situation. Also i heard about that there is no need of linux server for this kind of configuration only the things are to be done was create a floppy or bootrom and in windows server create /tftpboot for locating kernel and add hexip file for assigning the ip addresses for the nodes with respective mac address. Waiting for reply Tushar Rahane
Re: Help needed with failed build (#220928)
Hi Justin,
On [06/04/04 18:06], Justin A wrote:
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:22:24PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
the package john, currently maintained by Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a
and myself, is failing to build on sparc. This was reported as bug
#220928. Paul Slootman then suggested that the benchmark programs fails
[...]
alrighty :-) The problem seems to be in des itself, I haven't figurd
out where yet, but I did find this:
diff -r -u john-1.6.orig/src/MD5_std.c john-1.6/src/MD5_std.c
--- john-1.6.orig/src/MD5_std.c 2000-04-01 05:21:43.0 -0500
+++ john-1.6/src/MD5_std.c 2004-04-06 18:01:19.0 -0400
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
{
int length;
- for (length = 0; salt[length] length 8; length++);
+ for (length = 0; length 8 salt[length] ; length++);
memcpy(patterns.s, salt, patterns.l.s = length);
}
Thank you very much for debugging the problem and providing a patch to
fix it. Which .orig are you exactly talking about here? I just extracted
the .orig.tar.gz on my hd and it only contains line marked with a '-'.
The md5sum for my .orig.tar.gz is:
9cf20a5bd0999f9683cf47c5bd8aaed3 john_1.6.orig.tar.g
Christian
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Help needed with failed build (#220928)
Hi, the package john, currently maintained by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña and myself, is failing to build on sparc. This was reported as bug #220928. Paul Slootman then suggested that the benchmark programs fails when setting the SIGALRM signal handler at line 100 of bench.c He suggested running some malloc debugger, like electric fence. But neither does Javier, nor do I have enough time for this task. So I'ld like to ask you to help debugging this problem and fixing the build, so that it works again. Otherwise we would have to drop sparc from the list of supported architectures. So if anybody wants to help, please contact me in private or send me a copy, as I'm not subscribed to debian-sparc. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024D/B7CEC7E8 44BD 1F9E A997 3BE2 A44F 96A4 1C98 EEF3 B7CE C7E8 pgpAA1aKHRHPq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help needed with failed build (#220928)
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:22:24PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: Hi, the package john, currently maintained by Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a and myself, is failing to build on sparc. This was reported as bug #220928. Paul Slootman then suggested that the benchmark programs fails when setting the SIGALRM signal handler at line 100 of bench.c He suggested running some malloc debugger, like electric fence. But neither does Javier, nor do I have enough time for this task. So I'ld like to ask you to help debugging this problem and fixing the build, so that it works again. Otherwise we would have to drop sparc from the list of supported architectures. So if anybody wants to help, please contact me in private or send me a copy, as I'm not subscribed to debian-sparc. Christian -- Debian Developer (http://www.debian.org) 1024D/B7CEC7E8 44BD 1F9E A997 3BE2 A44F 96A4 1C98 EEF3 B7CE C7E8 I'm looking at it now, just got the backtrace: (gdb) r 1 Starting program: /tmp/john-1.6/src/bench 1 Benchmarking: Standard DES [24/32 128K]... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x70048f98 in __errno_location () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x70048f98 in __errno_location () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x7005ed4c in __libc_sigaction () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x7005ef80 in sigaction () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x7005ec6c in ssignal () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x00026744 in benchmark_format (format=0x3a038, salts=256, results=0xeca0) at bench.c:100 #5 0x00026ec0 in main (argc=2, argv=0xed84) at best.c:53 #6 0x70048dac in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) efence Enabled Electric Fence (gdb) r 1 The program being debugged has been started already. Start it from the beginning? (y or n) y Starting program: /tmp/john-1.6/src/bench 1 Electric Fence 2.1 Copyright (C) 1987-1998 Bruce Perens. [New Thread 16384 (LWP 9948)] Benchmarking: Standard DES [24/32 128K]... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 9948)] 0x70115398 in write () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x70115398 in write () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x7002e3cc in Page_Size () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0.0 #2 0x7002e5f0 in EF_Print () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0.0 #3 0x7002d588 in _init () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0.0 #4 0x7002e08c in malloc () from /usr/lib/libefence.so.0.0 #5 0x00028300 in mem_alloc (size=4) at memory.c:23 #6 0x000265cc in benchmark_format (format=0x3a038, salts=256, results=0xec70) at bench.c:76 #7 0x00026ec0 in main (argc=2, argv=0xed54) at best.c:53 #8 0x7005cdac in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 underfence is the same -- -Justin
Re: Help needed with failed build (#220928)
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:22:24PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
Hi,
the package john, currently maintained by Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a
and myself, is failing to build on sparc. This was reported as bug
#220928. Paul Slootman then suggested that the benchmark programs fails
when setting the SIGALRM signal handler at line 100 of bench.c He
suggested running some malloc debugger, like electric fence. But neither
does Javier, nor do I have enough time for this task. So I'ld like to
ask you to help debugging this problem and fixing the build, so that it
works again. Otherwise we would have to drop sparc from the list of
supported architectures. So if anybody wants to help, please contact me
in private or send me a copy, as I'm not subscribed to debian-sparc.
Christian
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alrighty :-) The problem seems to be in des itself, I haven't figurd
out where yet, but I did find this:
diff -r -u john-1.6.orig/src/MD5_std.c john-1.6/src/MD5_std.c
--- john-1.6.orig/src/MD5_std.c 2000-04-01 05:21:43.0 -0500
+++ john-1.6/src/MD5_std.c 2004-04-06 18:01:19.0 -0400
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
{
int length;
- for (length = 0; salt[length] length 8; length++);
+ for (length = 0; length 8 salt[length] ; length++);
memcpy(patterns.s, salt, patterns.l.s = length);
}
--
-Justin
Re: Help needed with Sparcstation 20
At 00:27 + 12/27/03, David Johnson wrote: [...] There are two possible ways to get around this: - 1. Boot into your system using a rescue disk, edit your silo.conf so that the bootloader is installed onto sdb, then run silo to install the bootloader. 2. Change the device that the machine tries to boot. From the OK prompt, you can type: - setenv boot-device / iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 The easiest solution is the second one, but the first is the proper way to do it. Hopefully, if I have guessed the problem correctly, doing either of the above will solve the problem. How about just open the machine and put the boot disk on the top (SCSI 1) and the other one on the bottom (SCSI 3)?
Help needed with Sparcstation 20
Hello all, I just acquired a Sparcstation 20 Dual Ross 100 mhz 384MB. The unit came with a 4.5 and 2.1M drive as well as a copy of red hat linux (5.2) on CDrom. I partitioned the drives as follows: dev/sda device Flag start end Id system sda11 200 83 linux sda2u 201 299 83 linux native sda30 10075whole disk sda4300 546 83 linux sdb sdb10 986 83 Linux sbd2U 986 101582 swap Sdb30 10165 whole disk when I install red hat all goes well until it is time to boot the system then I get an error the the boot device: / iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. So I downloaded the debian images off the net (went quite quickly on dec 24) and the install process goes flawlessly - until its time to boot then I get the same message. I must be doing something wrong that is obvious, I am not sure about the third partition being whole disk but I think I have read that this is necessary and fdisk seems to give this automatically. Anyone have a thought?? mark acierno
Re: Help needed with Sparcstation 20
On Friday 26 Dec 2003 10:03 pm, mark acierno wrote: Hello all, I just acquired a Sparcstation 20 Dual Ross 100 mhz 384MB. The unit came with a 4.5 and 2.1M drive as well as a copy of red hat linux (5.2) on CDrom. I partitioned the drives as follows: when I install red hat all goes well until it is time to boot the system then I get an error the the boot device: / iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. I can guess at what the problem could be. It looks like you are possibly trying to boot from the wrong disk, but this isn't your fault. When a Sun machine has two hard disks, the first is given SCSI ID 3 and the second is given ID 1. So the machine by default tries to boot from the first disk on ID 3. You can see that this is what the machine is trying to do from the output you provided. Now, Linux does something which would normally be sensible, but on Sun hardware is just confusing. It names the drives according to their ID. So the drive on ID 1, which is the machine's second drive, becomes sda and Linux's first drive. The disk on ID 3, which is the machine's first drive, becomes sdb and Linux's second drive. The installer will only try to install the boot loader on Linux's first drive, which is not the one the machine normally boots from. This has driven me mad in the past. There are two possible ways to get around this: - 1. Boot into your system using a rescue disk, edit your silo.conf so that the bootloader is installed onto sdb, then run silo to install the bootloader. 2. Change the device that the machine tries to boot. From the OK prompt, you can type: - setenv boot-device / iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 The easiest solution is the second one, but the first is the proper way to do it. Hopefully, if I have guessed the problem correctly, doing either of the above will solve the problem. And just to add further confusion: You don't actually need any whole disk partitions if you only intend to run Linux on the machine (which you do) and not a dual-boot combination of Linux and Solaris. I hope some of this helps :-) Regards, David.
help needed with Davicom NICs
I'm trying to compile a Davicom 9102 driver on Debian 2.4.18 on SPARC and having some problems... During the make, it complains for a /usr/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h, that is not there. There is however a /usr/include/asm directory with that file. If I link the .../asm to .../asm-generic, it makes it, but with some warning messages: /usr/include/asm/vac-ops.h:5: warning: garbage at end of `#ifndef' argument/usr/include/asm/vac-ops.h:6: warning: missing white space after `#define __SPARCSTUB__VAC' The file looks okay, maybe some invisible chars at the end. ...but at least it creates the module. I copied the dm9xs.o to /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/ ... (no make install option) If I say modprobe dm9xs.o it returns: modprobe: Can't locate module dm9xs.o However, If I say modprobe -l dm9xs.o , it returns: /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/dm9xs.o ...which is correct. insmod dm9xs returns: Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/dm9xs.o/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/dm9xs.o: ELF file /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/dm9xs.o not for this architecture Please help! Also, did anybodycompile these on sparc? I'm having a SunFireV100, with two NICs on board. thanks, -bela
help needed with bug #107591
The gist of this report seems to be that booting the installer over the network doesn't work at all on sun4u (or perhaps just on Ultra10 machines). Is anybody from the sparc camp able to confirm or refute this bug? p.
Re: help needed with bug #107591
Philip == Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philip The gist of this report seems to be that booting the Philip installer over the network doesn't work at all on sun4u Philip (or perhaps just on Ultra10 machines). Is anybody from Philip the sparc camp able to confirm or refute this bug? Correct. Neither the 3.0.16-2001-10-27,not BenC's newer bootdisks at URL:http://people.debian.org/~benc/, which I now cand find, will boot a sun4u system. -- Stephen A duck!
Re: help needed booting Ultra-5
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 20:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul: The CD's in Ultra-5's cannot read CD-RW media. However, they can read CD-R's just fine, as I found out after some gnashing of teeth. So, burn a CD-R, and you should be in good shape -- it worked for me. The other option if you cannot get the CD to boot is to use the tftpboot.img and do a net boot. The UltraSparc FAQ does a good job of explaining how this works. You will just need another linux box (sparc, ia32, whatever) attached to the same subnet (maybe same switch?) as the Ultra 5 you are installing onto... -tduffy
help needed booting Ultra-5
I've got an Ultra 5 Sparc machines here on which I am going to install Debian. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make it boot to any installation media. The installation notes for Sparc imply that sun4u's don't support booting to the floppy, so that would explain my failures there, but I downloaded and burned an official 2.2_rev3 iso for sparc, and that won't boot either. After I do 'boot cdrom' at the ok prompt, the process begins, but the messages say: Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package Evaluating: boot cdrom Can't open boot device This is quite like the message displayed when I try to boot to a sparc rescue floppy. The cd burn seems to have been successful- I can mount it on other machines. Is this a known problem, and I simply can't find any documentation about it? Might something be wrong with the hardware here, or is it likely I'm doing something stupid? The CD in question is a CD-RW. Are Ultra-5's old enough that they can't read those? I don't have any account on the machine at the moment, so I've no way of trying to mount the CD under Solaris. (Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to the list yet) -- paul cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] space software labhttp://ssl.usu.edu/paul/ utah state university OpenNIC: http://paul.geek/ sparcing debian info: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help needed booting Ultra-5
Hi Paul: The CD's in Ultra-5's cannot read CD-RW media. However, they can read CD-R's just fine, as I found out after some gnashing of teeth. So, burn a CD-R, and you should be in good shape -- it worked for me. Cheers, Keith On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:31:43PM -0600, paul cannon wrote: I've got an Ultra 5 Sparc machines here on which I am going to install Debian. Unfortunately, I can't seem to make it boot to any installation media. The installation notes for Sparc imply that sun4u's don't support booting to the floppy, so that would explain my failures there, but I downloaded and burned an official 2.2_rev3 iso for sparc, and that won't boot either. After I do 'boot cdrom' at the ok prompt, the process begins, but the messages say: Rebooting with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package Evaluating: boot cdrom Can't open boot device This is quite like the message displayed when I try to boot to a sparc rescue floppy. The cd burn seems to have been successful- I can mount it on other machines. Is this a known problem, and I simply can't find any documentation about it? Might something be wrong with the hardware here, or is it likely I'm doing something stupid? The CD in question is a CD-RW. Are Ultra-5's old enough that they can't read those? I don't have any account on the machine at the moment, so I've no way of trying to mount the CD under Solaris. (Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to the list yet) -- paul cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] space software labhttp://ssl.usu.edu/paul/ utah state university OpenNIC: http://paul.geek/ sparcing debian info: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed [Was: Re: Bug#98913: lxdoom: SIGBUS on sparc...]
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Erik Mouw wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:05:50PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 09:34:13AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: So there is some sort of alignment issue. Yup, lxdoom thinks that all the world is a PC and therefore contains quite some misaligned accesses. The same problem also shows on ARM hum. i don't know which codebase it was from, but i quite definitely ran doom on my SPARCbook 3 (basically an ss5) under Sol 2.5.1. ari
Re: Help needed [Was: Re: Bug#98913: lxdoom: SIGBUS on sparc...]
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:05:50PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 09:34:13AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Well, it looks like lxdoom is supposed to work on sparc, but when I ran it, It got to R_LoadTrigTables and said Endianess...corrected, and then went to: R_InitData: Textures Bus error So there is some sort of alignment issue. Unfortunately my first reaction to this is just not to build for sparc, and to refer you to prboom, which is actively maintained and has had some fixes for sparc recently. However, I would like to get lxdoom up and running properly, so I ask for help: it looks like lxdoom has alignment problems. If someone could refer me to documents about typical alignment issues and how to resolve them (particularly wrt sparc), or would look over lxdoom itself (it generates several alignment warnings on sparc when built), I'd be greatly indebted. Yup, lxdoom thinks that all the world is a PC and therefore contains quite some misaligned accesses. The same problem also shows on ARM systems, when people wanted to run Doom on their Compaq iPaq. Fortunately somebody fixed it, though I can't remember who (I think it was Russ Nelson). Have a look at http://www.handhelds.org/ , IIRC the solution is in the Wiki. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed
Hi, I haven't discovered yet what happend to the symlink. I may have a bad disk or the file utilities are corrupted. I tried to compile a new kernel 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 but when I try to install the modules some of the directories made as files!! make modules make modules_install make -C kernel modules_install make[1]: Entering directory `/export/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/kernel' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/kernel' make -C drivers modules_install make[1]: Entering directory `/export/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/drivers' make -C block modules_install make[2]: Entering directory `/export/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/drivers/block' mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/block/ mkdir: `/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel' exists but is not a directory make[2]: *** [_modinst__] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/drivers/block' make[1]: *** [_modinst_block] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/drivers' make: *** [_modinst_drivers] Error 2 and file /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel: file: read failed (Is a directory). e2fsck -n -v doesn't report anything unusual. I may need to reinstall the system afterall. I chechked what packages I have isnatlled and found some glibc packages. Do they exist or just made for convenient upgrading? dpkg -l '*glibc*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii glibc-doc 2.1.3-15 GNU C Library: Documentation un glibc-pic none (no description available) un glibcdoc none (no description available) rn libg++2.8.1.3- none (no description available) un libg++2.8.2-gl none (no description available) rn libstdc++2.10- none (no description available) un libstdc++2.9-g none (no description available) Gabor PS. I have/had a working version of 2.4.1 and saved the files/modules.
Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed
HI, replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr directory. Then back up. Best Regards, Peter Firmstone. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote: I'm trying to compile perl-5.6.0 under potato. There're some errors relating to the lib/ndbm and lib/anydbm. I tried to comment out these. Finally I changed the debian/rules and debian/config.debian and added to the Configure: -Ui_ndbm in the perl-5.6.0 source directory. STRANGE thing happend!!! My whole /usr/bin directory was wiped out only two directories remained there: libc5-compat mh I was running dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b as root from the perl source directory which is located in a different location than /usr. Could the dpkg-buildpackage erase the contents of /usr/bin ? Or something else happend? The other libraries weren't effected I think. Anyway I downloaded the base2_2.tgz with netscape which is installed under /usr/local and put the /usr/bin/* files from the archive into /usr/bin. Is there a way to rebuild the other parts of the system? I mean to get the missing binaries under /usr/bin? Gabor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed
On Mar 01, Q89029292 scratched in indelible ink : replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr directory. when I hosed my alpha by screwing up the partition table and lost *all* of /usr :( I grepped the installed packages out of /var/lib/dpkg/status into a text file, grep ^Package /var/lib/dpkg/status |cut -f 2 -d ' '|sort installed_packages then did an: apt-get install --reinstall `cat installed_packages` sure it probably copied over other stuff as well, but it was quick and painless. /Jp... system admin^wrecoverer -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || The only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distast for manual labour - dilbert
Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed
Thanks for the help. I did it a hard way. I did a dpkg -S '/usr/bin/' packages then produced a location/package with help of awk from the /var/state/apt/lists/*_dists_*stable*Packages Afterwards I used dpkg -i location/package where I used the Debian Sparc iso images. Then dselect / upgrade. So I have the binaries back in the /usr/bin. Of course I needed to download some packages separately. For example wget to download the iso images from kernel.org. Another problem related to location of var. I moved it from the / (root) to different partition and made a symlink. This link happens to disapper when I reboot the machine then it hangs when it's looking for /var/run and other directories in /var. I need to check what's going on. Gabor PS. Your methods seems easier. Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:14:35 +0800 From: Jean-Paul Blaquiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org On Mar 01, Q89029292 scratched in indelible ink : replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr directory. when I hosed my alpha by screwing up the partition table and lost *all* of /usr :( I grepped the installed packages out of /var/lib/dpkg/status into a text file, grep ^Package /var/lib/dpkg/status |cut -f 2 -d ' '|sort installed_packages then did an: apt-get install --reinstall `cat installed_packages` sure it probably copied over other stuff as well, but it was quick and painless. /Jp... system admin^wrecoverer -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || The only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distast for manual labour - dilbert
Re: DANGEROUS ?? help needed
On Mar 01, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey scratched in indelible ink : Another problem related to location of var. I moved it from the / (root) to different partition and made a symlink. This link happens to disapper when I reboot the machine then it hangs when it's looking for /var/run and other directories in /var. I need to check what's going on. At what stage of the boot process is it hanging? Also, is that new partition mounted at the stage it is hanging? Would it be easier to create a new partition for /var ? I have successfully moved /var off a / partition (and /usr as well) and had no problems ... /Jp... -- Jean-Paul Blaquière || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || The only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distast for manual labour - dilbert
DANGEROUS ?? help needed
I'm trying to compile perl-5.6.0 under potato. There're some errors relating to the lib/ndbm and lib/anydbm. I tried to comment out these. Finally I changed the debian/rules and debian/config.debian and added to the Configure: -Ui_ndbm in the perl-5.6.0 source directory. STRANGE thing happend!!! My whole /usr/bin directory was wiped out only two directories remained there: libc5-compat mh I was running dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b as root from the perl source directory which is located in a different location than /usr. Could the dpkg-buildpackage erase the contents of /usr/bin ? Or something else happend? The other libraries weren't effected I think. Anyway I downloaded the base2_2.tgz with netscape which is installed under /usr/local and put the /usr/bin/* files from the archive into /usr/bin. Is there a way to rebuild the other parts of the system? I mean to get the missing binaries under /usr/bin? Gabor
NIS+ Client Support Available / libpam_unix help needed
Over the past few months (shortly after my ITP), Debian-NIS+ Client support was developed by a small group of non-Debian maintainers. I post on debian-devel, to make the effort known among the Debian developers and the SPARC users, who might work in a SUN NIS+ environment AND to ask for libpam_unix help (see below). To get access to the NIS+ client package (i386) for Debian (potato) include deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ deb-src http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list To install your Debian system as a NIS+ client do apt-get install nisplus libpam-unix2 Then read the doc in /usr/share/doc/nisplus. The package is based on SUSE's libpam_unix2 package, because the nisplus provided from Thorsten Kukuk from SUSE) package does not work with Debian's libpam_unix. With Debian's libpam_unix the client machine must be in the admin group on the nis+ server. With libpam_unix2 there's no need for that security hole. Ben Collins is looking on the problem, but due to his many other functions in the Debian project, he is short of time. The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, nis+ access would be an advantage. The packaging work was done by Michael Feger (University of Karlsruhe), testing and documentation was done by Sebastien Chaumat and Pascal Degiovanni(Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon). Both can be reached via the debian-nis+ mailalias [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to be added to the alias, please send a short email to me. Thanks. Rainer. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni StuttgartTel.: 0711-7816-215
Re: NIS+ Client Support Available / libpam_unix help needed
The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, nis+ access would be an advantage. Just to clarify what needs to be done. I did not want to include a module called pam_unix2.so for fear of confusion with users. What I would like to see is the NIS+ functionality from pam_unix2.so to be merged into and work seemlessly with the current pam_unix.so. Atleast this way, the changes can be merged upstream, and integration is easier (e.g. just add nisplus to the modules options in the pam config files to enable the functionality). The folks the did all the work for this need a big thank you for the work they have been doing. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Bootable sparc potato ??? help needed.
Hurmph, In my zeal to update the debian-cd scripts for sparc, I first made changes to the debian-cd script tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc, so that it would write an El Torito bootable CD . Well duhh, that was stupid on my part! After recovering a bit (and taking a handfull of smart pills) I realized that if one wanted to make a bootable sparc CD image on an intel host, perhaps I should read up a bit on silo and intelsilo. Not being a 'sparc' guy, I'll admit that I am now only partially confuzed about how to do it. Therefore, I have put the file back to an original state, as I continue to mull over how to doit. So..i am looking for help If you could take a look at the file in the current CVS boot-disks that gets installed as: /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc Perhaps someone might have an idea on how to get it working with intelsilo. I think it is close. Thanx, -- Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bother, said Pooh as he struggled with sendmail.cf. It never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin were here.. E-Mail: Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 425-591-3002 fax 425-557-0660 Date: 13-Mar-2000 URL lcs.issaquah.wa.usTime: 09:58:35 Random number = DC 49 E8 7E 76 DD 30 2D 8D F1 B4 D8 A3 60 4C 04
Re: Bootable sparc potato ??? help needed.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:23:22AM -0800, Jim Westveer wrote:
Hurmph,
In my zeal to update the debian-cd scripts for sparc, I first
made changes to the debian-cd script tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc,
so that it would write an El Torito bootable CD .
Well duhh, that was stupid on my part!
After recovering a bit (and taking a handfull of smart pills)
I realized that if one wanted to make a bootable sparc
CD image on an intel host, perhaps I should read up a bit on
silo and intelsilo.
Not being a 'sparc' guy, I'll admit that I am now only partially
confuzed about how to do it. Therefore, I have put the file back
to an original state, as I continue to mull over how to doit.
So..i am looking for help
If you could take a look at the file in the current CVS boot-disks
that gets installed as:
/usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc
Perhaps someone might have an idea on how to get it working with
intelsilo. I think it is close.
I already have this working in my local tree. I'll commit soon. Basically
it is going to depend on a patch to mkhybrid that will be uploaded soon by
the maintainer. I don't think it works with intelsilo.
Basically you pass -B boot/second to mkhybrid (while having
boot/{cd,second}.b on the iso partition. You can check it out when I
commit.
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Re: Bootable sparc potato ??? help needed.
Jim Westveer wrote: Hurmph, In my zeal to update the debian-cd scripts for sparc, I first made changes to the debian-cd script tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc, so that it would write an El Torito bootable CD . Well duhh, that was stupid on my part! After recovering a bit (and taking a handfull of smart pills) I realized that if one wanted to make a bootable sparc CD image on an intel host, perhaps I should read up a bit on silo and intelsilo. Not being a 'sparc' guy, I'll admit that I am now only partially confuzed about how to do it. Therefore, I have put the file back to an original state, as I continue to mull over how to doit. So..i am looking for help If you could take a look at the file in the current CVS boot-disks that gets installed as: /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc Perhaps someone might have an idea on how to get it working with intelsilo. I think it is close. Actually, IIRC, intelsilo should work identically to silo (except that it refuses to do anything except CD's - won't do HD boot blocks). One thing to watch out for - the kernel and/or root.bin cannot be the last file on the disk. The prom can't read the last blocks from the disk. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SPARC2 install help needed
I just bought a Sparc 2 and I'm wondering if it's possible to boot off a Toshiba CD-ROM. boot cdrom won't work. I've tried booting off the floppies but it has some kernel paging errors during the root disk read. I have Debian 2.1 on 2 CDs along with floppies I made from the disk images. Thanks. David Lew Linux Addicthttp://www.LinuxAddict.com Ultra Vitamins http://www.UltraVitamins.com Personal Site http://www.jps.net/dlew
