Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run

2003-06-12 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: Nope, it's not a Sparc thing, it's an IDE thing. Maybe it depends on the motherboard, but just last week I was building a OpenBSD box out of spare parts that wouldn't boot because the CD on the second IDE was jumpered as a

Re: sparc64 and ipsec

2003-05-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:33:31PM +0200, Andreas Pettersson wrote: I've been planning to test ipsec on my Ultra 1. But it seems that the FreeS/WAN kernel patches for 2.4.x won't compile on sparc64 and 2.5.69 was horribly unstable. So my question now is if there is any other way of getting

Re: Kernel 2.4.20 and IPv6 ICMP on Sparc32/64 bomb

2003-05-09 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:05:15AM +0200, Peter Keel wrote: ping6 on an IPv6-enabled Sparc32 or Sparc64 on Kernel 2.4.20 bombs really nasty. Machine halts instantly. No matter what patches. You're using ping6 from iputils-ping? I maintain that package, and use it on a number of sparc systems.

Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install

2003-05-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:47:09PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Are you sure that you have the disk setup as Master, and not cable select or something else weird. Yup, entirely. I found another IDE disk (6x the capacity!) and it works fine. I don't know what was wrong before. I know the disk

Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install

2003-05-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
Hi all. I just installed potato on an Ultra 5 (will upgrade once it's working, but that's all I had on CD) but the machine doesn't seem to want to boot from the IDE hard drive. It had no problem booting the install CD and the installation seemed to go fine. No errors were reported when

Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install

2003-05-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: I'm only guessing but OBP doesn't seem to detect the device, atleast not at the OBP address that the disk alias points to. Try doing boot disk1 or boot disk2, boot disk3... That didn't work. show-devs reveals, among a bunch of

Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install

2003-05-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:56PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Boot back to the install and switch to a the shell console (ALT+F2) and use dmesg | more to see if you can find some info about your IDE. I have an Ultra5 here working perfectly with a non-stock IDE drive, so I know it works. Here's

Re: Ultra 5 won't boot from HD after install

2003-05-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
I have set up a tftp environment from which I can boot the installation system on this machine. What do I need to do to tftp a kernel to this machine and boot it? I obviously can't just send a kernel image to the machine (I tried). I can boot the tftpboot.img file with no troubles, but of

Re: Mail Server?

2002-06-18 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote: I don't think exim's good for an ISP. It could be useful for a home computer but nothing more. I don't like qmail. I'm surprised to hear you say that about exim. You realize that it was written to handle mail for a rather

Re: kernel 2.4.x compile failure on Ultra 1

2001-09-12 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:47:20AM +0200, Ben Castricum wrote: I think a came across this problem as well. Try compiling the kernel with SMP, i think the atomic_dec_and_lock only gets exported when SMP is being used. Unfortunately I run accross more problems later on when trying to compile

Re: SPARC 20 firmware error at boot

2001-08-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 12:14:52PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: what's probably happened is the internal battery has died. It is a trivial matter to attach a new lithium/NiCad battery to the top of your CMOS chip after disconnecting the old one. All you need is a soldering iron and a

Re: SPARC 20 firmware error at boot

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:57:59PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: google is your friend. or the copy I keep at home ;) http://japester.ucc.asn.au/faqsunnvram.txt Thanks! Now I only need to determine whether or not it's worth it to me to buy a replacement NVRAM chip... ;^) noah --