Re: Debian SID on Ultra 30

2023-03-31 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Dennis, On 3/29/23 11:12 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 3/28/23 18:50, Stan Johnson wrote: >>   "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" Thanks for your message. > > Power down the machine to the firmware ok prompt. You should be able to > do that with : > >     shutdown -Hh 'now' > > The capital " H "

Re: Debian SID on Ultra 30

2023-03-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/28/23 18:50, Stan Johnson wrote: "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" Power down the machine to the firmware ok prompt. You should be able to do that with : shutdown -Hh 'now' The capital " H " should just halt the linux os and leave you as the prompt. Then do this : setenv

Debian SID on Ultra 30

2023-03-28 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello, I updated an existing Debian SID installation today on a Sparcstation Ultra 30. Everything went as expected except for two issues: 1) During "apt-get dist-upgrade", the kernel was updated to vmlinux-6.1.0-7-sparc64, and the initramfs was created as expected. However, booting the new

Re: Debian SID on Ultra-30

2020-10-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/24/20 1:17 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > While i really appreciate the effort to keep this port around, i found > it a few inches away to really be usable as a reliable desktop system. > For server software without framebuffer, it might work well, but most > desktop programs aside from the

Re: Debian SID on Ultra-30

2020-10-23 Thread Connor McLaughlan
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 6:31 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > 3) Using the Sparc keyboard with the console, the first three characters > > I hit seem to be buffered and not immediately displayed, then everything > > works as expected. For example, if I log in as root, I don't see > >

Re: Debian SID on Ultra-30

2020-10-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 10/22/20 6:04 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > I just installed Debian SID on a Sparc Ultra-30. Thanks to everyone who > makes this unsupported port continue to work! Nice and you're welcome. > My first question is, on Sparc systems, should the "Boot" partition be > just large enough for GRUB?