Re: 2.6.12 testers wanted

2005-07-18 Thread Dr. Zimmermann
Jean Robertson wrote: Hello, I downloaded it and installed it on a home ultra5. me too ... (Linux-2.6.12, Hardware: Ultra 5/360MHz/512MB) This is what happened to me: - the console keyboard works fine. confirmed - I have a added USB card, and this works well. confirmed (for

Re: Kernel compiling

2005-07-18 Thread Martin
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 14:41 -0500, Tib wrote: Ahh, yes sounds like I wasn't clear on what you were referring to. But from the sound of it I still need a working kernel to turn into a kernel package, correct? That's my problem :] outside of the 2.4.18 kernel that came with woody, I haven't been

Re: 2.6.12 testers wanted

2005-07-18 Thread Tib
I downloaded and tried on my blade 1000, but ran into the same 'remapping the kernel' hang as I have with just about everything except 2.4.18. If anyone has a 2.6.8+ smp kernel that works for them on a similar blade machine I would be very grateful to see your kernel config file to try and use

Re: Kernel compiling

2005-07-18 Thread Tib
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Martin wrote: FWIW I've had problems with kernels built with the 'vanilla' .config (from www.kernel.org ) using the .config from one of the Debian kernels as a starting point seems to work though. Unfortunately before I even tried to roll my own, I tried using the

OT:U10 Won't boot, possible hardware failure

2005-07-18 Thread darin strait
Knowing absolutely nothing about ultra hardware, I picked up a used U10 at a computer meet about 4 months ago for a fun project. This is a 333 MHz UltraSparc IIi, with 256 MB of RAM, a 9.1 GB IDE drive and an IDE CD-ROM. It's got a regular sun mouse and keyboard. It also had one of those Creator

Re: U30 netinst: can't boot kernel

2005-07-18 Thread Giulio Sichel
I'm using sun screen and keyboard, not serial cable. I don't have an onboard framebuffer: creator and elite 3d cards are both on upa slots. I'll try to download the first official cd. Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT:U10 Won't boot, possible hardware failure

2005-07-18 Thread Martin
Before I junk the unit or start bidding on eBay for parts, I thought I would throw general questions to this list because it's the only sun/sparc list that I am familiar with: The folks at http://www.sunhelp.org/ run a list called sun-rescue that is very infomatative. Is this (dead power

Re: OT:U10 Won't boot, possible hardware failure

2005-07-18 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Hi, [del] Suddenly, the unit won't stay on. I first noticed this yesterday afternoon. If I toggle the power switch on the back of the unit, nine times out of ten nothing happens. The tenth time, it will boot and seem to run fine. If I come back to the unit a few hours later, it's off. My first

Software RAID on SPARC64

2005-07-18 Thread David Johnson
Hi all, I've been having problems with software RAID (using mdadm) on Sarge on an Ultra Enterprise 450. There seems to be a bug somewhere causing corruption of Sun disk labels. I start with 8 SCSI disks with valid Sun disk labels and one partition filling each disk. The partition types are

Re: OT:U10 Won't boot, possible hardware failure

2005-07-18 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:42:56PM +0100, Martin wrote: eBay is good. However I *believe* the Ultra 10's use a standard ATX power supply, certainly have a look and see if it is. Yep, they do - I know of people who have replaced the PSUs in their U5s/10s with standard ATX PSUs. A good starting

Re: OT:U10 Won't boot, possible hardware failure

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick Morris
I've lost a lot of power supplies in Ultra 10s -- but I've had a *hell* of a lot of 'em. I'd put it as somewhat less common than a hard drive failure, but somewhat more common than anything else. It happens. On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Martin wrote: Is this (dead power supply) a common failure

Re: Software RAID on SPARC64

2005-07-18 Thread Martin
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 14:06 -0400, Sam Creasey wrote: Not sure this is actually it (I'm just guessing here), but are you starting the raid partition on cylinder 0? Or cyl 1? I *think* (though I'm not sure) that starting on cylinder 0 actually puts the disklabel into the beginning of the

Re: Software RAID on SPARC64

2005-07-18 Thread Sam Creasey
Not sure this is actually it (I'm just guessing here), but are you starting the raid partition on cylinder 0? Or cyl 1? I *think* (though I'm not sure) that starting on cylinder 0 actually puts the disklabel into the beginning of the partition itself. This isn't a problem for UFS, as UFS

Re: Software RAID on SPARC64

2005-07-18 Thread Simon Heywood
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:57:22 +0100, David Johnson wrote: I've been having problems with software RAID (using mdadm) on Sarge on an Ultra Enterprise 450. There seems to be a bug somewhere causing corruption of Sun disk labels. I start with 8 SCSI disks with valid Sun disk labels and one