On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
4) If the partition table on the disk was first written by an old
version of the Solaris format command the maximum useable size of
any partition will be either 1Gb or 2Gb depending on version.
Linux will probably not notice and allow you to creat
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:56:21AM +0100, Chris Newport wrote:
> 2) Older OBPs cannot see beyond either 1Gb or 2Gb into a partition
>depending on version. If your installer puts anything needed for
>the initial boot process beyond this point you will not be able
>to boot. [ Affects Spar
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
I wasn't able to reproduce the working condition with a 3.5 GB root (/) md0
partition, or a 2 GB root md0. :( I've finally created a 256 MB /boot md0,
and a 5 GB root (/) md1 partition, and finally PROM found SILO.
Someone who knows PROM and/or SILO could
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:26:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > [ Fabio M. Di Nitto ]
> > * RAID cannot be selected if we are on sparc AND the partiton starts at 0
> > otherwise there will partition table corruption happening in the first
> > 512 bytes of the disk.
>
> I found another
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:41:22PM +0100, Luís Pratas wrote:
> I can normally boot the system but I can't get the network interfaces
> working.
>
> My kernel is 2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp
>
> # dmesg output
> # dmesg | grep eth0
>
> eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit)
>
Hi,
Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now that we have released, we need to set our goals for the future. As
> you probably guessed from the subject, I am strongly in favor of
> dropping sparc32 support for lenny. There are multiple reasons for it,
> including
>
> * Nearly complete la
Hello Luís,
* Luís Pratas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-04-16 15:41 +0100]:
> I have successfully installed Etch's minimal base system on Sunfire V210,
> from the netinstall cd.
> I can normally boot the system but I can't get the network interfaces
> working.
>
> I have searche
Hi!
I have successfully installed Etch's minimal base system on Sunfire V210,
from the netinstall cd.
I can normally boot the system but I can't get the network interfaces
working.
I have searched about this and I found that it might be related to an
Broadcom tg3 driver licensing and distributio
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:56 -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:04:00PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 21:51 +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >
> > IMO, because of the issues already noted, I think the Debian users have
> > already dropped support for sp
Ben Collins wrote:
> > [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=117407830512186&w=2
> > [1] http://lists.auroralinux.org/pipermail/aurora-sparc-user/2007-
> March/004504.html
>
> In other words, make the move. Sparc32 community is definitely not what
> it used to be, and I'm doubting that anyone is
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