Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
David S. Miller davem@redhat.com writes: If the upper 32-bits of some parameter we pass in has garbage in it, we'll totally die in the firmware. From experience reported in my last message, it looks as if this is specific to the installer (or at least only shows up there for some reason) and

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-10 Thread Jason Wever
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:23:30 -0600 (MDT) Jason Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll try this tonight when I get home and report back. To clarify, the SILO error we get with 1.4.9 on UltraSPARC IIIs (at least on a Blade 1000 with 'OBP 4.16.4 2004/12/18 05:18') looks like the following; Boot

AW: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-08 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von:Jason Wever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Fr 08.07.2005 17:37 An: Jon BIddell Cc: Boon Siong; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Betreff:Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240 *** Diese

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-08 Thread Ben Collins
So SILO from hd works, but SILO from cd doesn't? I can't think of anything that is different when booting from CD other than the first stage bootloader (which is pretty trivial). The only thing could could possibly be the issue is something to do with initrd. Maybe some bug haas crept in, maybe

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-08 Thread David S. Miller
From: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:11:24 -0400 So SILO from hd works, but SILO from cd doesn't? I can't think of anything that is different when booting from CD other than the first stage bootloader (which is pretty trivial). The only thing could could possibly be

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-08 Thread Ben Collins
If the upper 32-bits of some parameter we pass in has garbage in it, we'll totally die in the firmware. It's something to consider. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when looking into this. Just wish I could reproduce it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 -

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-08 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ben Collins wrote: So SILO from hd works, but SILO from cd doesn't? I can't think of anything that is different when booting from CD other than the first stage bootloader (which is pretty trivial). The only thing could could possibly be the issue is something to do with

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:37:26PM -0700, Tyler wrote: Ben Collins wrote: If the upper 32-bits of some parameter we pass in has garbage in it, we'll totally die in the firmware. It's something to consider. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when looking into this. Just wish I could

Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-07 Thread Boon Siong
Hi, I have a Sun Fire V240 with 1GB Ram, i get this msg when i try to boot up with debian installation cd, ok boot cdromBoot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args:SILO Version 1.4.9\boot:Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for

RE: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-07 Thread stefan t
From: stefan t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7 iulie 2005 11:40 To: 'Boon Siong' Subject: RE: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240 I have same problem ! Try removing 512 mb of ram! There is not a kernel bug, I guess, since HIGHMEM support is for 4GB. Anyway, Ive

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-07 Thread Boon Siong
any one succesfully installed debian on v240? can give some advise? - Original Message - From: stefan t To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:45 PM Subject: RE: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240 From

RE: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-07 Thread stefan t
From: Boon Siong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7 iulie 2005 12:10 To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240 any one succesfully installed debian on v240? can give some advise? - Original Message - From

Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240

2005-07-07 Thread Jon BIddell
Boon Siong wrote: Hi, I have a Sun Fire V240 with 1GB Ram, i get this msg when i try to boot up with debian installation cd, ok boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: SILO Version 1.4.9 \ boot: Allocated 8 Megs