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
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:02:08AM -0500, Greg Moeller wrote:
> With a combo of egcs64 and gcc 2.95 I managed to get a kernel compiled which
> had all the hardware/drivers I needed. (differential SCSI, SMP, RAID)
> With some simple testing on a pair of RAID0 drives (in a D1000) using cp -a
> I get
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
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
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 dis
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 course
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.
H
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 b
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 installin
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 rathe
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
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
>
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
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I've got a SPARC 20 running sid that will no longer boot. It fails
before running the kernel with the following error:
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
IDPROM: Checksum failure (nvram=5d, calc=d0)!
Does anybody know how to fix this? It's clearly not a Debian, or even
Linux specific problem, but I don't kn
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