sun4c kernel patches?

1999-11-19 Thread ferret
i've noticed with the 2.2.1 install kernel I don't get any serial port problems or kernel panics during boot. During boot the following line is shown on the console: Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). \ Patching kernel for sun4c Does anyone know about this? -- Fer

Netbooting Sparc from i386 server

1999-11-19 Thread ferret
I just discovered I can netboot my Sparc IPX from the tftp 2.2.1 image. I installed slink onto an NFS-root filesystem. Now I can't quite figure out how to boot it. I have tftp enabled in inetd.conf, and I have a /etc/bootptab file that LOOKS like (according to the man page) to be set up properly.

Linux & Solaris: Kbd probs

1999-11-19 Thread Andreas Jaehnigen
Hi again, I still have a rather nasty problem with some Suns running Debian 2.1 here. These machines are configured as X-terminals and don't run anything locally but a rather bare X and (of course) the Debian base system. The Xserver is started via inittab :-) in a way like this: X -fp -

Re: More strange Sparc behaviour

1999-11-19 Thread ferret
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:05:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Serial console goes offline at 'init 6', does not come back online. > > > > Runlevel change does not seem to work when 'debug=1' is set in > > /etc/init.d/rc > > > > It do

Re: More strange Sparc behaviour

1999-11-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:05:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Serial console goes offline at 'init 6', does not come back online. > > Runlevel change does not seem to work when 'debug=1' is set in > /etc/init.d/rc > > It doesn't actually run the scripts. 'fixed' that behaviour though

More strange Sparc behaviour

1999-11-19 Thread ferret
Serial console goes offline at 'init 6', does not come back online. Runlevel change does not seem to work when 'debug=1' is set in /etc/init.d/rc It doesn't actually run the scripts. 'fixed' that behaviour though. Why would the serial console go offline on reboot/halt? -- Ferret no baka (I