How can i boot *anything* on Sun Blade 100?

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
Can anyone help me on this matter? No matter what i'm trying, i cannot boot anything on my machine. I've tried Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD. It always tells me, it "cannot read disk label", "cannot read disk label package" and "cannot open boot device". If i try to "show-disks", selecting the "cdr

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
In the meantime i've remembered, that i have an IDE DVD-RW and i replaced the drive. Now it does not eject the Solaris DVD, but i still cannot boot anything with "boot cdrom". Kevin Stabel írta: >If you don't mind the cost of one disc, you could.If you do mind the cost, >you could try to look

Re: booting up Debian 9 on Sun Blade 100

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
If yes, then please tell me how can i do that. Mark Morgan Lloyd írta: >On 09/04/17 17:00, Frans van Berckel wrote: >> On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 16:52 +0200, transmail wrote: >>> How can i boot up the Debian 9 netinstaller on my Sun Blade 100? Is >>> there any manuals/tutorials about installing Debia

Re: booting up Debian 9 on Sun Blade 100

2017-04-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 09/04/17 17:00, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 16:52 +0200, transmail wrote: How can i boot up the Debian 9 netinstaller on my Sun Blade 100? Is there any manuals/tutorials about installing Debian on a Sparc machine? If you are gonna netboot, please wait for some days. The n

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
You were right, DVD+RW is not supported by this drive. However CD-RW is and still, i cannot boot up neither FreeBSD 11, nor Debian 9. Any idea why? (Hitachi GD-7000 docs are here: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bph06479) Kevin Stabel írta: >If you don't mind the cost of one disc, you could

Re: booting up Debian 9 on Sun Blade 100

2017-04-09 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Sun, 2017-04-09 at 16:52 +0200, transmail wrote: > How can i boot up the Debian 9 netinstaller on my Sun Blade 100? Is > there any manuals/tutorials about installing Debian on a Sparc > machine? If you are gonna netboot, please wait for some days. The netinstaller image does not function well a

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread Kevin Stabel
If you don't mind the cost of one disc, you could. If you do mind the cost, you could try to look up what your drive supports. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:11 PM, transmail wrote: > Yes, it is. It's a DVD+RW. And both the FreeBSD and Debian CD-s i tried to > boot up were CD-RW. Should i try CD-R and

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
Yes, it is. It's a DVD+RW. And both the FreeBSD and Debian CD-s i tried to boot up were CD-RW. Should i try CD-R and DVD-R? Kevin Stabel írta: >This is a burned DVD yeah?It could actually be a fairly obscure issue, namely >DVD-R vs DVD+RPlease have a look here:  >https://pc.net/helpcenter/answe

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread Kevin Stabel
This is a burned DVD yeah? It could actually be a fairly obscure issue, namely DVD-R vs DVD+R Please have a look here: https://pc.net/helpcenter/answers/different_dvd_r_formats On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:51 PM, transmail wrote: > I've tried to set auto-boot? to false but it's still ejecting my S

booting up Debian 9 on Sun Blade 100

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
How can i boot up the Debian 9 netinstaller on my Sun Blade 100? Is there any manuals/tutorials about installing Debian on a Sparc machine?

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
I've tried to set auto-boot? to false but it's still ejecting my Solaris DVD. What can cause this? Mark Morgan Lloyd írta: >On 09/04/17 12:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> That's not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good medium, >> e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
I put my (commercial) Imperium Galactica 2 CD into the drive and tried to "boot cdrom". Same result as before. My drive is a Hitachi GD-7000 DVD-ROM. It should be okay. Should i try it in another machine? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz írta: >That's not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 09/04/17 12:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: That's not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good medium, e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see if that works. And, even if that works, it could still be that the old CD-ROM drive in your SPARC doesn't handle CD-Rs. You rea

Re: Sun Fire V490 kernel bug

2017-04-09 Thread Michał Zagórski
Hi, Another screens from the case, these are with memblock=debug. https://i.imgtc.com/ZMPPUdHzza.png https://i.imgtc.com/WRFBY7hiAk.png https://i.imgtc.com/JyjjJsdJ4p.png Michał

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
That's not a proof that this drive works. Try reading a known good medium, e.g. a commercially pressed CD and see if that works. And, even if that works, it could still be that the old CD-ROM drive in your SPARC doesn't handle CD-Rs. You really need to make sure the drive can deal with the CDs

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
Both medium was OK on my x86 Linux box. I tried to run Debian 9 Sparc64 by "boot cdrom", but also no avail. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz írta: >On 04/08/2017 10:32 PM, transmail wrote: >> I guess, i'm doing something wrong again, but i have no idea what. > >Have you verified that the CD-ROM drive a

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread transmail
I just wrote the ISO out. Mark Morgan Lloyd írta: >On 08/04/17 21:00, transmail wrote: >> I tried to boot up Solaris 10 from my Blade 100, but when i insert the DVD, >> the drive spins up, tries to do something, then ejects itself. If i instert >> the FreeBSD 11 CD, then it does not eject autom

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2017 10:32 PM, transmail wrote: > I guess, i'm doing something wrong again, but i have no idea what. Have you verified that the CD-ROM drive actually works properly, i.e. by testing a known good medium? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@deb

Re: Sun Blade 100, problems with DVD drive

2017-04-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 08/04/17 21:00, transmail wrote: I tried to boot up Solaris 10 from my Blade 100, but when i insert the DVD, the drive spins up, tries to do something, then ejects itself. If i instert the FreeBSD 11 CD, then it does not eject automatically, but when i tell "boot cdrom", it tells me, that it