Has anyone apart from me built non-iso-8859-1 boot floppies recently?
I found I needed to patch scripts/rootdisk/prototype/etc/init.d/rcS to
get the font loaded, and I sent my patch to debian-boot. But there was
no reaction. So I guess that either no one is interested in
non-iso-8859-1 boot floppi
christophe plasschaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Hi everibody,
> >new to debian (not to linux), i tried to install slink on a sparc
> >the 2 hard disks and then:
> >detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> >esp0: disconnect, resetting bus
> >esp0: resetting scsi bus
> >esp0: scs
> After configuring 2.2.13 tried to make : make bzImage
> make responded with : make: *** No rule to make target `bzImage'.
> Stop.
>
>
> Any idea why?
Is bzImage a self-decompressing kernel specific to i386? Try "make
vmlinux" or just "make" instead.
> Hmm, this thread is too repetitive. I propose to fix the installer to enfore
> a
> Sun disklabel on the disk.
> I guess it could be fixed in either 2 ways:
> - add some obscure option to fdisk telling it to treat non Sun disklabel the
> same way as blank disk
> - or check for a Sun disklabel
John Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't
> > have
> > known which one to use otherwise... So, I'd like to find out why it doesn't
> > show on yours.
>
> It's one of those perverse realities, I'm afraid. If your disk has
> al
> What exactly do I need to put a Sun disk label on my disk? Solaris?? I
> hope not :)
You can do it with fdisk. It's in the manual:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-dbootstrap-partition
(Does dbootstrap in potato make this any more foolproof?)
Edmund
I built a cross-compiler on Intel for SPARC from the binutils and gcc
sources, i.e. without using the Debian packages. If you check the
debian-sparc archives I think my recipe's in there somewhere.
(Otherwise ask me and I can probably find it and e-mail it to you
tonight - in about 12 hours.)
In g
Walter Keeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Last night, I noticed a problem compiling kernels on my Sparc 5 using both
> 2.2.9 and 2.2.12 sources.
>
> The problem was related to the "console drivers" section. If I entered
> that dialog, I found that a couple of radio buttons near the bottom,
> following
Adam Di Carlo:
> Every user has a responsibility to file intelligent and useful bugs
> when things are wrong.
Can you remind us of the correct procedure, please, and where that
procedure is described?
The file /etc/init.d/network is, apparently, generated by code in
/usr/src/boot-floppies/utilit
Eric Delaunay:
> It seems the sparc2 is too slow to handle both reading and decompressing on
> the
> fly :-((
>
> This test was made with silo to 0.8.6.
Can anyone explain why the reading and decompressing of the floppy has
to be handled as a real-time task that fails when the processor is too
Andreas Jaehnigen:
> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
I get this on i386 using kernel 2.2.10 with Debian 2.1. There is a
slight incompatibility between Debian 2.1's network initialisation
scripts and the 2.2.x kernels. The error is harmless and may be
ignored, as far as I know, though it would be nice
> I got a wired scsi error that i need some help with.
>
> This is the error message:
>
> Resetting scsi bus
> scsi bus reset interrupt
> disconnect, resetting bus
> (these 3 lines spams in an endless loop)
>
> The error happens only at boot up when kernels \"scsi-probe\" hits the cdrom,
> if i
Martin Bruns wrote:
>
> Compiling a kernel failed with this:
> atyfb.c: In function `atyfb_ioctl':
> atyfb.c:2213: `FBTYPE_PCI_GENERIC' undeclared (first use this function)
> atyfb.c:2213: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> atyfb.c:2213: for each function it appears in.)
> atyfb.c
Hm.
In 2.2.9 FBTYPE_PCI_GENERIC is defined in include/asm-sparc64/fbio.h,
but not in include/asm-sparc/fbio.h. Similary for _PAGE_CACHE;
apparently atyfb.c is intended for sparc64 only; atyfb.c is compiled
iff CONFIG_FB_ATY.
I think it's yet another bug in drivers/video/Config.in.
Make sure you
I don't use Debian's kernel-source package at all. It's easy to build
the kernel using the upstream source and there are instructions in lots
of places, including in the source itself (available from
ftp.kernel.org or mirrors).
Compiling the Linux kernel is easier than partitioning a disc,
configu
> Hi, I was wondering if the newer bootdisk for the sparc 1+ has had the bugs
> worked out of it yet
> I was wondering as I need to do a reinstall for mine as I need to do some
> reconfiguration to my sparc and I might as well install the newer
> bootdisk...
If your current boot disk works, ju
> > after booting from the CD, and starting the instal, finds the cd-rom, and
> > hard drive, then gets caught in a loop of errors:
> > esp0: disconnect, reseting bus
> > esp0: restetting bus...
> > esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
>
> The CD wouldn't happen to be a Sony CDU-8012 would it? A fix wen
> I have a system with a Cycle 5 board (Sparc 5 clone) that has two SCSI disks -
> targets 3 & 4 with slink installed on both disks. When I boot kernel 2.0.35,
> all works fine. But when I install the 2.2.1 kernel on my main disk (target
> 3)
> and then boot, the boot goes fine until where it is
> I wasn't able to install kernel 2.2.1 on my SPARC 2 because it
> complained about "live target 0 not responding to selection" during
> the SCSI initialization phase. The only target that it should have
> been interested in is 3, and 2.0.35 was able to start up just fine.
> I have seen indication
> Ok, After getting a sun 630 MP (quad processor), I stuck in a small 500 MB
> drive to replace the huge drives that came with it. After some fussing, I
> installed linux on it. The manual was quite good, except it mentioned
> nothing of sun disk labels. neither did fdisk. this disk had previou
> I recently obtained the Debian 2.1 releas I tried to install it on my
> Sparc Station 4. Booting the CD-Rom failed with both kernels. It
> displayed similar behavior as others have mentioned about the bus
> reseting and not connecting. I also tried tftp from an Intel Linux box
> with not luck. I
maxime baudin wrote:
>
> "make xconfig" cause some Pb, when framebuffer is enabled, some features are
> not accessible, and I get:
> ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable
> (CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16).
> ERROR - Attempting to write value for unconfigured variable
> (CONFIG_FBCON
> > subject says all; I see that sparc uses glib-2.1 and kernel-2.2.1, so
> > this should not be a problem. Is there some other reason not make egcs
> > the primary compiler for sparc?
> >
> > Thanks, the Debian EGCS maintainers.
>
> None that I know of.
In the 2.2.5 announcement Linus mentions t
Jeffrey Ebert wrote:
> Harold Hartley wrote:
> >
> > I sent a message ealier and felt I didn't explain myself enough...
> >
> > I have fdformat some floppies and put the files for boot floppies on them..
> > they also have a SunOS label to them
> > As I read my man on my sparc 1+ about fdforma
> Is anybody out there working with two kernels, one 2.0.X
> and other 2.2.X? I'd be interested to know what one should do to get
> them working together. Regards,
For a while I used 2.0.x and 2.2.x with the same file system on x86. I
didn't notice any major problems at the time. I haven't use
> > Are you trying to boot from floppy or hard drive? Did you type "boot
> > floppy" at the PROM prompt? Can you include a couple of the lines
> > before the SILO line?
>
> I'm trying to boot from floppy by typing boot floppy (at the new style
> prompt) or b floppy (at the old style prompt). In
> I can start X as root w/o problems, but as a user, it says:
...
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
This problem has come up here several times already. The solution seems
to be either
(1) change the permissions of /dev/fbX (but does this have any other
consequences? why are the permission
> I got my installation and further deb's from this site:
> ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/mail/
I've complained about this before!
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc
contains old versions!
Can it be changed to a link to
ftp://ftp.debian.org/de
> > Are there any tests I can do which don't involve nuking my system?
>
> Hook up a spare hard drive?
What I usually do for testing the installation procedure is borrow my
swap partition for the purpose.
Of course that means the installation itself has to work without swap.
When I did this on a
When I first installed Debian (on Intel x86) I naively accepted the
default answer "yes" to a question about whether I wanted xdm.
Of course my computer, at the end of its booting up sequence,
triumphantly blanked the screen and "died". At the time I didn't know
anything about LILO and boot parame
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=129.88.33.95
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=129.88.33.0
> BROADCAST=129.88.33.255
> GATEWAY=129.88.33.253
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add de
First, I'll answer my own question:
> (And how many kinds of incompatible partition table are there?)
The answer is quite a lot. See check_partition() in
linux/drivers/block/genhd.c for a list of the ones that Linux can
understand.
I managed to convert my previous partition table (I don't know w
Last night I wrote:
> Unfortunately, I still can't boot from [EMAIL PROTECTED],0. Here's what I get
> on
> the screen, in case it helps:
>
> Rebooting with command: disk3
> Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File
> and args:
> Bad magic number in disk
> Where can I get these new bootdisks?
ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/current/
A propos:
Could a link to Eric's ftp site be added to
http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/?
And could ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-sparc
be made to point at /
Thank you, John Chapman, for telling me about the mailing list archives
and more recent boot floppies. Now I have some different problems:
This time I took resc1440.bin, root.bin and drv1440.bin from the
directory called 2.1.6-1999-02-02.
I discovered by random experimentation that to boot off "r
After searching for a long time, eventually I stumbled upon:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/disks-sparc/1998-12-07/
(Why isn't it easier to find boot floppies starting from
www.debian.org?)
sparc_release_note.txt says I should get root1440.bin; but I only found
root.bin, which is
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