Re: [hardware-donations] Sun E4500 and netra t4
Am 2007-06-11 21:47:18, schrieb Josip Rodin: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:36:07AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: I'm willing to pick them up, Carlsbad is about 100 miles from where I live. It would be good to add them to our pile of hardware to test installs on if nothing else. They are newer and faster than any of my sparc systems. I'm not sure what's your setting, but I guess it's worth pointing out that these are server machines which belong to a server room - they take up a lot of space, spend a lot of power, and likely create an abominable noise and overall make up for a really, really bad neighbour :) Like my tree Sun Blade (Paris, Basel and Offenburg) which consuming each up to 6 KW electricity. Oh, in Offenburg/Germany my letter use the heat of the Machine with a heat pump in the haus where I am installed. :-) Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/6192519367100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) signature.pgp Description: Digital signature
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun E4500 and netra t4
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:36:07AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: I'm willing to pick them up, Carlsbad is about 100 miles from where I live. It would be good to add them to our pile of hardware to test installs on if nothing else. They are newer and faster than any of my sparc systems. I'm not sure what's your setting, but I guess it's worth pointing out that these are server machines which belong to a server room - they take up a lot of space, spend a lot of power, and likely create an abominable noise and overall make up for a really, really bad neighbour :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA
Is anyone interested in the following machines for Debian related work? The machines are currently located in Carlsbad, CA, near Lego Land. We recently freed up some old Sun hardware that we're willing to donate for the cost of shipping. Available are: - Sun Enterprise 4500 - Sun Netra T4 -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:40:12AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Is anyone interested in the following machines for Debian related work? The machines are currently located in Carlsbad, CA, near Lego Land. We recently freed up some old Sun hardware that we're willing to donate for the cost of shipping. Available are: - Sun Enterprise 4500 - Sun Netra T4 An E4500 is more or less a shipping nightmare. Do they have its rack mount kit? Which CPUs are in it, and how many of them? Another person in England recently told me about a similar possible donation, and they also have no idea how to ship it... A Netra T4 is a 4U server which should be pretty modern, and likely worth having. What are the specifications for that one? If it's sufficiently modern and beefed up, it might be worth shipping it to a place with a fat pipe, but I've no idea if such a thing is being practised. I could host it over here in Europe, if we decided that kind of a trip was worth it. In general, someone should ask an overseas shipping company for the price of shipping of such large and heavy boxes. We're mostly speculating on how expensive it would be, but Debian has money in the bank that's not being used otherwise, so it might not be so expensive after all. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun E4500 and netra t4
Is anyone interested in the following machines for Debian related work? The machines are currently located in Carlsbad, CA, near Lego Land. We recently freed up some old Sun hardware that we're willing to donate for the cost of shipping. Available are: - Sun Enterprise 4500 - Sun Netra T4 I'm willing to pick them up, Carlsbad is about 100 miles from where I live. It would be good to add them to our pile of hardware to test installs on if nothing else. They are newer and faster than any of my sparc systems. Since I've been less active in the sparc port (and debian in general, other than despamming the bts) latly, I'll defer to anyone else that has a good use for them. If someone in San Jose/San Fransisco area needs them, I might be able to deliver them in early July. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-04 15:52]: An E4500 is more or less a shipping nightmare. Do they have its rack mount kit? Which CPUs are in it, and how many of them? Another person in England recently told me about a similar possible donation, and they also have no idea how to ship it... ... A Netra T4 is a 4U server which should be pretty modern, and likely worth having. What are the specifications for that one? I'm not sure, but I'll put you in contact with the donor privately so you can check. If it's sufficiently modern and beefed up, it might be worth shipping it to a place with a fat pipe, but I've no idea if such a thing is being practised. I could host it over here in Europe, if we decided that kind of a trip was worth it. I doubt shipping to Europe is worth it, but it shouldn't be too hard to find hosting in California. Maybe you want to check whether this box would be useful and whether someone can host it? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:12:28PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: but it shouldn't be too hard to find hosting in California. Maybe you want to check whether this box would be useful and whether someone can host it? We don't have any sort of a database of hosting offers, do we? I don't think so. Maybe it would be worth setting up a separate (archived) mail alias @d.o and then tell people that they can send information there. Mind if I bring this up on -project so that we get some broader input? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-04 23:03]: but it shouldn't be too hard to find hosting in California. Maybe you want to check whether this box would be useful and whether someone can host it? We don't have any sort of a database of hosting offers, do we? I don't think so. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [hardware-donations] Sun Enterprise 4500 and Netra T4, USA
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:38:53PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: What are the specifications for that one? I'm not sure, but I'll put you in contact with the donor privately so you can check. Thanks. If it's sufficiently modern and beefed up, it might be worth shipping it to a place with a fat pipe, but I've no idea if such a thing is being practised. I could host it over here in Europe, if we decided that kind of a trip was worth it. I doubt shipping to Europe is worth it, We won't actually know unless we get some numbers. If we get charged e.g. 750 USD for shipping a large box overseas, that sounds expensive, but if the overhead of finding such a machine and getting it to the right place is large and takes a lot of time to get it online in a decent setting, so large that nobody actually wants to bother, and no progress is made, then those 750 USD were not worth saving. but it shouldn't be too hard to find hosting in California. Maybe you want to check whether this box would be useful and whether someone can host it? We don't have any sort of a database of hosting offers, do we? If we don't, debian-admin should have received a fair few offers back when they posted a public call for hosting of those two machines, so if that info can be collected and verified again, it should be useful. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netra t4
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:22:14PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:56:57 -0800 Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html I overlooked this patch, it was not that I had rejected it. Eric, thanks for bringing it back to my attention, I'll add it to all of my trees right now. hi all, waking up this thread again. Are any debian installer images available with the patch mentioned above? tried with actual sarge and woody images, without success on this netra t4. tia charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: netra t4
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:15:02PM -0800, Eric Brower wrote: You may wish to speak with Johan Verrept-- he built a kernel for use on his Netra T4. well, I tried to reach him but he's busy or maybe my mails go under in the daily mail-noise... all-in-all: I still cannot boot, are there any docs about building tftpboot.img -es for sparc? I do have already an Ultra-10 running with debian, so I do not need to cross-compile, but how to build a tftpboot.img? with or without crosscompiling, both interests me. tia charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.
Re: netra t4
Take a look at the Linux on the Sun JavaStation howto-- that describes the process in detail. E VEGH Karoly wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:15:02PM -0800, Eric Brower wrote: You may wish to speak with Johan Verrept-- he built a kernel for use on his Netra T4. well, I tried to reach him but he's busy or maybe my mails go under in the daily mail-noise... all-in-all: I still cannot boot, are there any docs about building tftpboot.img -es for sparc? I do have already an Ultra-10 running with debian, so I do not need to cross-compile, but how to build a tftpboot.img? with or without crosscompiling, both interests me. tia charlie
Re: netra t4
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:22:14PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:56:57 -0800 Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html I overlooked this patch, it was not that I had rejected it. Eric, thanks for bringing it back to my attention, I'll add it to all of my trees right now. it's really nice that we found the prob. do I have to cvs checkout your tree, and build my own tftpboot.img or do you have any tftpboot.img built already by chance? charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.
Re: netra t4
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:19:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Booting Linux... sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok Boot with linux -p (or boot net linux -p for netboot). See if we can see some more info. ok boot net linux -p Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1: File and args: linux -p Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 464c00 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10 4Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:2 4ARCH: SUN4U Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:2 4ARCH: SUN4U ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb Remapping the kernel... done. On node 0 totalpages: 195880 zone(0): 196447 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Booting Linux... Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: linux -p Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS Memory: 1542432k available (1944k kernel code, 512k data, 168k init) [f800,5febe000] Dentry-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SCHIZO, control regs at 04000440 SCHIZO PBMB: Local PCI config space at 07ffee00 SCHIZO PBMA: Local PCI config space at 07ffec00 PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz ebus: No EBus's found. sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok and if i boot from the cd: Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! This is the Debian Install CD. Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary. WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue CD from the drive and press L1-A to get back to the OpenBoot prompt. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. [ ENTER - Boot install ] [ Type rescue - Boot into rescue mode ] Loading initial ramdisk PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10 4Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:2 4ARCH: SUN4U Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)) #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:2 4ARCH: SUN4U ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb Remapping the kernel... done. On node 0 totalpages: 195880 zone(0): 196447 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Booting Linux... Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: ro cdrom -p Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS Memory: 1542432k available (1944k kernel code, 512k data, 168k init) [f800,5febe000] Dentry-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SCHIZO, control regs at 04000440 SCHIZO PBMB: Local PCI config space at 07ffee00 SCHIZO PBMA: Local PCI config space at 07ffec00 PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz ebus: No EBus's found. sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. What images are you using? from ftp.debian.org: ftp pwd 257 /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/3.0.23-2002-05-21/sun4u ftp ls tftpboot.img 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Here comes the directory listing. -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 4591072 May 18 2002 tftpboot.img 226 Directory send OK. ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /tftpboot/AC1533C9 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4591072 Dec 10 21:34 /tftpboot/AC1533C9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I do need sun4u or? not sun4cmd? Note the installer fully supports serial console (I use it all the time). i hope as well that this is only a PEBKAC at me... thx for the help. charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.
Re: netra t4
This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. What images are you using? from ftp.debian.org: Try the images here: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/ -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
Re: netra t4
Johan Verrept sent a patch to this list and DaveM on 26.Jan.2003 for proper booting on the T4, but it apparently never made it into the kernel sources (as per bkbits). It does not specifically address the SAB issue, but does address the fill_ebus_child issue. http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html E VEGH Karoly wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:53:03AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. What images are you using? from ftp.debian.org: Try the images here: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/ tried: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img 1: booting with a simple 'boot net' - ok boot net Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1: File and args: Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 535400 Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... UGH: property for SUNW,lomv was 24, need 1 --- as for the last line, I found the following URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200302/msg00034.html 2: booting with 'boot net linux -p' ok boot net linux -p Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1: File and args: linux -p Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 535400 PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.2.4 2001/06/13 10:10 4Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003 4ARCH: SUN4U Linux version 2.4.21 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 15:40:07 EST 2003 4ARCH: SUN4U ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:0f:6c:fb Remapping the kernel... done. On node 0 totalpages: 195776 zone(0): 196447 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Booting Linux... Found CPU 0 (node=f006fb30,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: linux -p Calibrating delay loop... 499.71 BogoMIPS Memory: 1547720k available (2504k kernel code, 576k data, 184k init) [f800,5febe000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. SCHIZO0 PBMB: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[4000440] pregs[4000470] SCHIZO0 PBMB: PCI CFG[7ffee00] IO[7ffef00] MEM[7fe] SCHIZO0 PBMA: ver[4:0], portid 8, cregs[4000440] pregs[4000460] SCHIZO0 PBMA: PCI CFG[7ffec00] IO[7ffed00] MEM[7fd] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1d] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1f] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[18] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[19] PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 4] map[0] to INO[04] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 0] map[1] to INO[01] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 1] map[1] to INO[02] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 2] map[1] to INO[03] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 2] slot[ 3] map[1] to INO[00] PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz ebus0: [flashprom] [bbc] [power] [i2c - (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (1 0Kernel panic: fill_ebus_child Press L1-A to return to the boot prom --- hope this tells you more than it does to me... thanks for the help, charlie
Re: netra t4
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:56:57 -0800 Eric Brower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/debian-sparc-200301/msg00149.html I overlooked this patch, it was not that I had rejected it. Eric, thanks for bringing it back to my attention, I'll add it to all of my trees right now. Thanks again.
netra t4
Hi all, I am trying to set up a Sun Netra T4, but at both install/boot methods (cdrom and net) I get the following: Booting Linux... sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok Since this box has no VGA card, I tried to start the install from the serialconsole from another linux(intel)box with minicom, with having the serialport of the intelbox connected to the Port A of the Netra. what can I do to be able to be able to start the installer? As I understand this is some kind of Terminal prob, where the installer cannot start something installer-sepcific through the serial console. Is there any possibility to start up some text-only installation? Or how else am I supposed to do the setup? any help is appreciated tia charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.
Re: netra t4
Booting Linux... sab82532_console_setup: can't get SAB82532 chainProgram terminated ok Boot with linux -p (or boot net linux -p for netboot). See if we can see some more info. This seems to be a problem with the serial console driver in the kernel. What images are you using? Note the installer fully supports serial console (I use it all the time). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
