Re: OS dies, Sparc server returns to Open Boot prompt

2008-10-23 Thread John Bevins
Hi Peter, I think somehow I am sending a BREAK to it. Maybe it was a default startup or shutdown of minicom. Someone from the list mentioned the command "go" yesterday and I tried it and Debian does resume. Regards, John Peter Hicks wrote: Are you sending a BREAK signal somehow to the machi

Re: Debian on Sun box any advantage?

2008-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
John Bevins wrote: Hello Everyone, I don't know much about Sun boxes. What advantage, if any, is there to running Debian on a Sun box as opposed to a brand name x86 server? In my case I have Debian running on a range of systems from single-CPU ARM with 32Mb to a moderate-sized Sun box with a

Re: OS dies, Sparc server returns to Open Boot prompt

2008-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
John Bevins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you have a serial cable plugged into it? Yes, the serial cable stays connected to a laptop which is not on very often. is attached to another computer that serial cable ? Yes do usually reboots that other computer ? The laptop that is atta

Re: Problem installing Debian 4.0r4a on SunBlade 100

2008-10-23 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Geert Stappers wrote: ERROR: Last trap: Fast Data Access MMU Miss I did seen such messages myself. I got them at a warm boot and could resolve them by a cold boot. (power down, machine gets cold, power up) I have seen this on a batch of Ultra-1s which I had foolishly upraded to the lat

Re: Debian on Sun box any advantage?

2008-10-23 Thread Sean Whitney
I am not aware > of many cases of people purchasing new Sun hardware just to run Linux > (althought I could be mistaken). I worked at an ISP where we bought 2 sun pizza boxes, installed debian and shipped them to the field for DNS servers. They worked great! Sean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian on Sun box any advantage?

2008-10-23 Thread Martin
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:18 -0700, John Bevins wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I don't know much about Sun boxes. What advantage, if any, is there to > running Debian on a Sun box as opposed to a brand name x86 server? As the question is phrased I think it is unanswerable. It depends what Sun hard