unknown partition table

2004-06-14 Thread Peter Keel
I constantly get unknown partition table: | rapunzel~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb | | Disk /dev/sdb: 18.2 GB, 18210037760 bytes | 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 17366 cylinders | Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes | | Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table | | rapunzel:~#

Re: unknown partition table

2004-06-14 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:10:30AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Settings according to /dev/sda which is a SEAGATE-SX118273LC-6367 Use the default values for everything in here. Didn't work either. So I did a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1 which got me a useable partition table.

Re: incredible slow E250

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:22:06PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:26:53 +0100 Peter Keel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my E250 running with my own kernel (2.4.23-rc5-grsec), to be correct, I got it crawling for some applications: Do the slowdowns happen

Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:16:58AM +, Brian Teeman wrote: I dont think Steve was commenting on if users wanted sparc CDs. He was talking about if anyone in Debian wanted to support sparc CDs. I don't know. I'm running Debian on Sparcs since a few years, and on about 8 machines. And

incredible slow E250

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Keel
Hello I got my E250 running with my own kernel (2.4.23-rc5-grsec), to be correct, I got it crawling for some applications: time dpkg -l -a 2 /dev/null real0m34.671s user0m15.090s sys 0m19.610s I already can rule out grsecurity. But what could this be? strace'ing the above shows

packet recompiles

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Keel
[sorry for writing the last few messages with a wrong email-address] Hello I'm trying to recompile some essential libraries for Sparc, since I know that some of those are meant for V7-architecture, whereas binaries for V8 and V9 could be much faster. Now, I'd like to do this the Debian way.

packet recompiles

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Keel
Hello I'm trying to recompile some essential libraries for Sparc, since I know that some of those are meant for V7-architecture, whereas binaries for V8 and V9 could be much faster. Now, I'd like to do this the Debian way. The question is: if I do apt-get -b source glibc, which optimizations

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

2003-05-11 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:03:37AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:05:15AM +0200, Peter Keel wrote: Hello I know this probably doesn't really belong here, but this is the only Sparc-ML I'm reading, and it may be of interest to you. ping6 on an IPv6

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

2003-05-11 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:45:53AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: You have to use egcs64 for 2.4 kernels. Yes, seems so. It boots. I verified also the whole patch-situation, and it seems I was wrong: This was with the USAGI-patch. The stock kernel (even with grsecurity and

Kernel 2.4.20 and IPv6 ICMP on Sparc32/64 bomb

2003-05-09 Thread Peter Keel
Hello I know this probably doesn't really belong here, but this is the only Sparc-ML I'm reading, and it may be of interest to you. ping6 on an IPv6-enabled Sparc32 or Sparc64 on Kernel 2.4.20 bombs really nasty. Machine halts instantly. No matter what patches. This is sparc32: oldlady:~#

ip6tables on sparc32: filter Table does not exist

2003-02-18 Thread Peter Keel
Hello I finally managed to compile 2.4.20 on my SS10. Since I recently got 2001:8A8:30:30::/60 I now definitely want to do ipv6. It works, BUT: josephine:~# ip6tables -L ip6tables v1.2.6a: can't initialize ip6tables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps

Re: Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message you sent. The inf ected attachment was deleted.

2002-01-28 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:10:25PM +, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: NAV for Microsoft [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:36:39 +1100: Content-Type: application/ms-tnef Wht? What kind of crap is that, and since when does any program use it? :-( apt-get install tnef Peter

Re: 2.4.12 compile errors on Sparc32

2001-11-05 Thread Peter Keel
Update: On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:18:54PM +0200, Peter Keel wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:41:22AM -0400, Joe Stevens wrote: Yea, the recent CVS versions should work, I only keep that 2.4.8 up there because its 'stable' (I use it on a number of production machines, uptimes of more than

rarp

2001-11-05 Thread Peter Keel
Where has /proc/net/rarp in kernel 2.4 gone? Is it impossible to run a rarp-SERVER with 2.4? The user-space utility rarp can't find it. Me neither. Peter -- Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: 2.4.12 compile errors on Sparc32

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Keel
: 74.95 MMU type: TI Viking/MXCC contexts: 65536 nocache total : 1048576 nocache used: 772864 CPU0: online CPU1: online Whooohooo! On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Peter Keel wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:22:39AM -0400, Joe Stevens wrote: I have

Re: 2.4.12 compile errors on Sparc32

2001-10-22 Thread Peter Keel
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:22:39AM -0400, Joe Stevens wrote: I have a complete source tree of 2.4.8 that I have patched up to work on sparc32 available at http://home.att.ne.jp/iota/joe/ . It have it running on a number of Sparc 5s. I managed to compile the kernel from the cvs -- cvs-access

2.4.12 compile errors on Sparc32

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Keel
Indeed, 2.4.11 compiled on Sparc32, the first since a long time. I couldn't run the one one I tried because it told me it was too big. Before I could shrink it, 2.4.12 appeared, and of course: /usr/src/linux-2.4.12/include/linux/interrupt.h:77: warning: `__cpu_raise_softirq' redefined

SProgram terminated

2001-10-09 Thread Peter Keel
Hello Out of a sudden, I get Rebooting with command: Boot device: /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],40/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: SProgram terminated Type help for more information #0 ok go Program terminated

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:05:38AM -0700, Andrew Sharp was blubbering: If you find yourself in a situation where the normal recovery mechanisms of reiserfs don't work, the file system is most likely so fubared that reiserfsck won't be able to do much. But it might. I've got plenty of

mysql-server_3.23.36-2_sparc.deb broken?

2001-04-22 Thread Peter Keel
With mysql-server_3.23.36-2_sparc.deb I get this: 010422 14:32:28 bdb: architecture lacks fast mutexes: applications cannot be threaded 010422 14:32:28 Can't init databases strace turns up some strange things: | open(/var/lib/mysql/__db.001, O_RDWR|0x4) = -1 ENOENT (No

Re: building compressed kernel

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 07:31:23AM +0800, Onno Benschop was blubbering: On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Thomas Seyrat wrote: Does anyone on the list know how to make compressed sparc kernels? Uhm, from the usr/src/linux/README: - do a make zImage to create a compressed kernel image. If you

Re: Bug#90549: SS2 Problem

2001-03-22 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:49:16PM -0500, Ben Collins was blubbering: On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:25:53PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Matt Lewandowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: boot-floppies Version: potato (downloaded 20Mar2001) architecture: sparc model:

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:20:19AM +0100, Andreas Tille was blubbering: Just for the sake of interest: How far depends filesystem code from the processor architecture? - Endianness - 32bit/64bit ... (and counting ;) These would be the most prominent, I guess. Peter -- Any good Unix

Re: Potato-Woody

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:38:25PM +0900, Ragga Muffin was blubbering: Hi everyone, I'd like some input about upgrading an SS5 from potato to woody. Specifically: - Are there any issues with 2.4.x on sun4m ? Nonworking on my SS10. Doesn't go over booting Linux - Any

Re: SMP on 2xSM50?

2001-02-21 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:52:20AM +0100, Marco Gaiarin was blubbering: cache) Sparc? I have a Sparc 10 that runs Debian 2.2r2 fine in uniprocessor but periodically freezes/halts when running with both procs. Hem, excuse me but i don't know spark hardware... but SS10 are

Re: setting up a screenless sparc1

2001-02-16 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:49:18PM +0100, sylvain was blubbering: 1 - using an i386 box as a terminal for the Sparc. I know it's via the serial line, but all resarch gave nothing for this. Could anyone know how? with minicom or seyon. Even cu should work. Settings: 9600 8N1, hardware

Re: kernel src 2.4 and woody

2001-02-15 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 02:07:08PM -0500, John F. Davis was blubbering: Hello I am running woody and I tried to build the 2.4 kernel source. I was unsucessful when compiling the modules. (I think it was because I had selected the dbri module.) How can I install the latest 2.4

Re: quota -- quotacheck bombs

2001-01-19 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:04:42PM +0100, Peter Keel was blubbering: quotacheck (from quota_2.00-8) bombs. I can't make out why with strace, and ltrace has no available version but is in the database. Kernel is 2.2.18, with quota turned on, of course. (nb: This is on Sparc10, Woody

Re: quota -- quotacheck bombs

2001-01-19 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:31:56PM +0100, Peter Keel was blubbering: Can I set my quota with a hexeditor until this gets fixed? I did. ;)) repquota shows it, quota and edquota still report no quota. I guess it's unuseable anyway in that case. Peter -- Any good Unix security engineer

Reiserfs

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Keel
I tried to compile a 2.2.18 with reiserfs-support. This happens: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/fs/reiserfs' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 \ -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -m32 -pipe -mno-fpu \

Re: make bzImage

2001-01-11 Thread Peter Keel
* on the Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:51:05PM -0500, Tad Bilby was blubbering: I've got exactly the same problem. My vmlinux won't let itself boot or whatever. It doesn't display Loading Linux, instead something (dunno what this is) is displayed, and Watchodg reset or something. Any ideas? Why