Re: sparc meeting requirements for etch

2005-09-22 Thread Jon Biddell
Guys, I have a SunBlade 1000, but only on a slow 256k line, which could be pretty useless at that speed... Does anyone have any contacts within SUN or even one of the SUN Refurbished Equipment resellers ? Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 05:26:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On

Re: Account on sparc machine(s) wanted

2005-09-21 Thread Jon Biddell
I have a SunBlade 1000 running Sid, unfortunately only on a 256Kb line... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Ultrasparc here - It boots as a UltraSparc 5/10 - running gentoo. Would that help? On 21 Sep 2005 at 20:13, Jurij Smakov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: e10k, 34 CPUs, 30G RAM = $1000

2005-09-04 Thread Jon Biddell
Yeah - I just showed this to my wife - BIG mistake. The bruises should heal in about a week I guess...:-( in case anyone is interested ... there's a Sun E1 with 34 SPARC CPUs and a total of 30G of RAM for auction, closing in about 3 hours. it's currently priced at a bit under USD

Re: Debian CD won't boot on SunBlade2000

2005-09-03 Thread Jon Biddell
I am trying to install debian (3.01a) on a SynBlade2000 server. when I type at the OK prompt boot cdrom I get this anoying error: Fast Data Access MMU Miss. I googled this error, found out that it has to do with the boot loader, or somthing, but didn't find a solution. Dose any one how to

Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-13 Thread Jon Biddell
When I go into the open boot it asks for a password. If you press STOP-A, do you get the OK prompt ? If you do, reset-all should take care of the password problem I believe (it did on my SunBlade) Do you think it might be better to rob the memory out of half the boxes and use in the

UltraSparc III

2005-08-09 Thread Jon Biddell
Any progress on UltraSparc III support yet, or is it still a pain in the ass getting info out of SUN ? JOn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UltraSparc III

2005-08-09 Thread Jon Biddell
David S. Miller wrote: From: Jon Biddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:59:28 +1000 Any progress on UltraSparc III support yet, or is it still a pain in the ass getting info out of SUN ? Linux has supported the UltraSPARC-III since I got my first SunBlade1000 system 3

Re: UltraSparc III

2005-08-09 Thread Jon Biddell
I know I keep getting the dreaded Fast Data Access MMU Miss error when I boot from the debian installer CD (SILO 1.49 I believe), but booting from a Gentoo CD with the same version of SILO works fine... That's just a bug somewhere that somebody needs to track down and fix, it's not because

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Biddell
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:34, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Quoting Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, when the v210 was frozen, I had to reset it via the lights-out management system. The 'lights-out management system'? Is that a Solaris thing? It's a Compaq-originated thing - an interface card

Re[2]: blade 1000 X config

2005-07-13 Thread Jon Biddell
Hello Roger, Wednesday, July 13, 2005, 6:51:16 PM, you wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:45:17PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: In fact, now that I think about it, that may solve another problem - and that is remote management of 3 x Wintendo servers. Currently I use remote desktop into them

Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-12 Thread Jon Biddell
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:43, Dave Love wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No big deal. Eat the disk label by using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?? count=1 bs=1M in the installer's spare command console; then recreate it with the parted partition editor. Parted and fdisk both produce bad labels

Re: blade 1000 X config

2005-07-12 Thread Jon Biddell
Dave Love wrote: Tib [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No - it's not the keyboard that's messed up. It runs just dandy until you get past the locale selection and pick your language preference - then suddely everything is mapped wrong and on the sarge installer I didn't see a way to pick a literal

Re: blade 1000 X config

2005-07-12 Thread Jon Biddell
Tib wrote: At the risk of being wrong (I have been known to be occasionally !!), would it work with a standard PC USB keyboard ? I mean, apart from the left row of keys which may not be supported anyway, is there anything on the Type 6 you really REALLY need ? I'm facing the same problem, and

Re: Sarge on Netra T1

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Biddell
Undr Solaris, partition (or slice) 3 covers the whole disk and isn't used for anything else, AFAIK. Delete this, reset the CHS settings, write the partition table back to disk, re-run FDISK and create your partitions. If you create one large partition, mount it and do a df -h you

Re: partitioning for dual boot

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Biddell
Jon Biddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Probably the obvious answer, but Solaris and Sarge on separate drives ? Sorry, no -- the system disk. It would be a pain to use an external scsi drive on the systems of interest, but openboot doesn't seem happy with that anyway, either on ultra 5

SunBlade 1000 Installation

2005-07-07 Thread Jon Biddell
Hi gang, Well, success at last - sort of - with the SunBlade 1000. For some reason it refuses to boot from the Deb.Sparc installer CD, yet Solaris boots fine as does Gentoo using the same version of SILO. So a netboot from my tftp server worked. The install seemed to stall several times over

Re: SunBlade 1000 Installation

2005-07-07 Thread Jon BIddell
This is a known issue (you have reported yourself and is in the normal pipeline to be fixed). See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315573 I assume we're talking about the same machine here...? Yes, the same machine (I only mentioned it for the sake of completeness !!). I

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-07 Thread Jon BIddell
Boon Siong wrote: Hi, I have a Sun Fire V240 with 1GB Ram, i get this msg when i try to boot up with debian installation cd, ok boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: SILO Version 1.4.9 \ boot: Allocated 8 Megs

Re: SunBlade 1000

2005-06-23 Thread Jon Biddell
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:12 pm, Robert Wolfe, Webmaster wrote: Are you having the partitioner automatically set up the partitions for you? I so, you may have to set up your partitions manually. I was having the partitioner do it, but when I try setting them up manually I have the same problem.

Debian on SunBlade 1000

2005-06-20 Thread Jon Biddell
Greetings all, I've just acquired a SunBlade 1000 and, being new to Sparc hardware, thought I'd install Sarge on it. Every single time I boot, from any of the Sarge install images, I get the dreaded Fast Data Access MMU Miss message. Interestingly though I can boot from Solaris 10, and from a

Re: Debian on SunBlade 1000

2005-06-20 Thread Jon Biddell
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:28, David S. Miller wrote: From: Jon Biddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:21:33 +1000 Every single time I boot, from any of the Sarge install images, I get the dreaded Fast Data Access MMU Miss message. Interestingly though I can boot from

Re[2]: Debian on SunBlade 1000

2005-06-20 Thread Jon Biddell
Hello David, Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 11:24:00 AM, you wrote: Now comes the fun part - hardware detection. It tries to load the qlogicisp SCSI driver and says it's having problems loading it, so it can't see my two 73Gb FC drives. It needs the qlogicfc driver, not the qlogicisp one.

SunBlade 1000 Installation

2005-06-20 Thread Jon Biddell
Well, with thanks to David and Olivier, I now have a basic Debian system installed on my 'blade - however when I reboot, SILO starts loading Linux, I get the message remapping the kernel, then the dreaded Fast Data Access MMU Miss error AGAIN !!! RG ! -- Best regards, Jon