- I have to install without the benefit of a monitor or keyboard, how do I =
get
the resce flopppy to eject so I can insert the root disk?
A very vague reply:
I think you can exit to the PROM and tell the PROM eject-floppy and
then continue. I forget the exact commands. Try help.
As for
I 've installed a debian potato on sparc 1 without problem (exept mysql ;)
but now o a sparc station LX (sun4m) slilo don't run , in fact the install
is ok but when slilo run, after reboot, the system tell me : wrong label
(You mean SILO?)
Earlier I suggested that something like the
A couple of questions appeared in my mind while upgrading to 2.2.10:
(1) This business of having to install /etc/init.d/devpts.sh from
potato's libc6 to make a recent 2.2.x kernel work if
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is selected. It's not too hard to do by hand, but
it doesn't seem right that people should
I've experience on compiling the Linux kernel for i386 systems but not for
SPARC. I want to compile a kernel myself for my SPARC, but have no idea on
how to do it. Is there any information somewhere about it?
It's the same as on Intel, really, except that the kernel image
produced is
Sorry if this thread's getting a little long, but for the price of the
chip and ease of fitting I wouldn't suggest it's worth the effort.
Then again, if you're the sort of person who's trying to set up Linux on
a Sparc...
If your machine is on a network, consider using xntp3 to keep its
I have an IPX that I have tried to install Sparc Debian on but
afterthe
boot tries to detect the devices it detects the cd rom drivs a Sony CDU-8012
it
starts resetting the bus this drive works fine with solaris and is listed as
SUN Cd drive that was OEMed for Sun by Sony. I have
I'm sending these notes to the list because some people might be
interested, and some people might have advice for me about how I could
have done it better.
Building a SPARC kernel on an Intel machine
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I did this partly because my Intel machine (233
Sorry to be slightly off-topic, but does anyone have any recent
experience of how much second-hand Sun computers are worth? If so I'd
be grateful for any data points (model and price) as there's a whole
lot coming up for auction here soon and I might try to get one.
The machines to be sold
Is the Linux kernel source for Sparc the same as the i386 one?
If not, where should I get the Sparc one from?
I built kernels for Sparc and x86 using the same source, version
2.2.5. It may be that patches are required for some features which I
don't use, though.
Edmund
Funny, you say above that it's ok to put a file system partition on
cylinder zero (and the silo documentation agrees). But here you say
you had to put a non-partition to keep that cylinder blank.
It's a real partition, just unused, namely:
Device FlagStart End Blocks Id
I solved it! It boots!
And I think the solution should go into the installation notes
somewhere. Please consider adding something like this. (The crucial
and new bit is the start of paragraph 2.)
===
The installation system
You can't have swap as the first partition on the disk. The boot
loader and the swap overwrite each other.
My first partition starts at 1, rather than 0, because fdisk warned me
about that problem. But I can't boot even if I run swapoff before
running silo before shutdown -h and attempted
I downloaded Eric's latest floppy images (2.1.8) today and reinstalled
using them. They worked with no problems this time: dbootstrap didn't
die once!
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
(1) /dev/MAKEDEV gives /dev/sunmouse the wrong major device number: it
should be 10, not 11. Grep /dev/MAKEDEV for sunmouse; it's in there
twice.
(2) Can someone please tell me how to eject a floppy without using the
PROM?
(3) I'm still looking for a way of booting Linux from a hard drive ...
Shurik:
I've made some additional testing and found out that dbootstrap just segfaults
while trying to Configure the Base System. First of all, its PID changes
when it goes to the initial message. That meens, I guess, it was restarted
(the same behaviour if I kill it by hands). So I've try to
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