Re: Please test new SILO

2006-06-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 8. Juni 2006 06:33 schrieb Jurij Smakov: > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > And you should use sizeof(buffer) as the last argument for > > prom_getproperty(). Not that if that function return -1, e.g. because the > > buffer is too small, it will always hit the sun4c cas

Re: Please test sparc32 kernel

2006-06-08 Thread Stuart Brady
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:05:21PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Today, 6 hours, 27 minutes, 39 seconds ago, Stuart Brady wrote: > > /bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory > > Device /sys/block/sda/dev seems to be down. > > Debugging opportunity, type ^D to continue. > >

Re: Please test sparc32 kernel

2006-06-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Today, 6 hours, 27 minutes, 39 seconds ago, Stuart Brady wrote: > /bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory > Device /sys/block/sda/dev seems to be down. > Debugging opportunity, type ^D to continue. > > This is with yaird 0.0.12-14. I'll try it again with initramfs when the >

Different crashes on E420R DD wanted

2006-06-08 Thread Daniel J . Priem
Hello, i have here an full equiped E420R wich frequently crashes under sarge etc.. with some SYM... errors. Now i am looking for a person who is really experienced with such machines and the Hardware inside to have a look via console on it. And tell me what to replace/renew. Because of the locatio

Installing Debian on an Ultra 5

2006-06-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:55:56PM +0100, Kevin Fullerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 114 lines which said: > The serial port marked A on the Ultra 5 is a DB25 Female, and the > serial port marked B is a DB9 Male. I never used the Ultra 5 but it looks close from the Ultra 10. > 1

Re: Please test sparc32 kernel

2006-06-08 Thread Stuart Brady
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:46:40PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > The patch used to produce it from the linux-2.6 package (version > 2.6.16-14) is available there as well. Please test it and let me know what > happens. If you decide to roll your own kernel using the patch, please do > *not* use t

RE: sparc32 problems with libc6 and 2.4 kernel

2006-06-08 Thread Jérôme Warnier
Le mardi 06 juin 2006 à 10:49 -0700, Shaun Prince a écrit : [..] > This initrd issue also exists with many other distributions that offer > binary kernels, so this is not necessarily a debian issue. Even after I > compile the initrd.img, my hypersparcs give me spinlocks with "cramfs: > bad magic" a

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2006-06-08 Thread Kevin Fullerton
Hi,   Not sure if anyone can help - I've come into a Sun Ultra 5 system, but the base unit only - no cables or manuals, which I want to load Debian onto.   I've had a google around and it looks like I can use a standard PC monitor and get a sun keyboard for it, or I can use a serial cable to

Re: Please test new SILO

2006-06-08 Thread Stuart Brady
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:03:49AM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > appreciate if you could test this new package, to make sure that there are > no regressions. As usual, when fiddling with silo, there is a rather big > probability that you'll end up with an unbootable machine, so be prepared > for