thanks for the information. I'm still battling a few issues, but the
most prominent problem on my way to netboot-install is that I can't seem
to get the apt/sources.list right for fetching sources (?):
You just have to build the debian-installer package on sparc64 using sbuild and
as a result,
Hi Robin,
On 17.05.21 12:36, Robin Cremer wrote:
[...]
On a not entirely unrelated note:
Are there any news on functioning netboot images? The last post I could
find points to images from April '17 on your webspace, which were,
according to the ML, not bootable because of the size.
At least I
On 5/17/21 12:36 PM, Robin Cremer wrote:
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/sparc?id=e5e8b80d352ec999d2bba3ea584f541c83f4ca3f
> I'm using the latest version from the repositories:
>> 5.10.0-6-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) sparc64
Hi Adrian,
for the sake of visibility, here the response to the kernel-trouble:
Am 17.05.2021 um 10:23 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
Installing on two SunFire v215 went reasonably well
/- (apart from recurring Kernel Panics with "Unable to handle kernel paging request
in mna handler",
Hi Adrian,
thanks for the response!
First things first: I got GRUB to work yesterday :-)
The last bit of magic missing in the picture was what you expected: The
blocklist was "shifted" because GRUB-install didn't correctly determine
the relation of physical disk vs. MDraid-Volume block
On 5/16/21 2:03 AM, Robin Cremer wrote:
> Responding to myself:
>
> Some progress:
> I put additional informational output between all commands in the suspect
> area in GRUBs util/setup.c and pinpointed the bug:
>
>> #ifdef GRUB_SETUP_SPARC64
>> {
>> grub_partition_t container =
Hi Robin!
On 5/15/21 7:25 PM, Robin Cremer wrote:
>> 7. Report back to the list and include your hardware and partition setup
>
> A bit late to the party, as SILO already appears to be gone (including the
> repos) and
> all install images use GRUB now, but I'm having trouble and wanted to
Responding to myself:
Some progress:
I put additional informational output between all commands in the
suspect area in GRUBs util/setup.c and pinpointed the bug:
#ifdef GRUB_SETUP_SPARC64
{
grub_partition_t container = root_dev->disk->partition;
if (grub_strstr
Hi,
We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to GRUB
as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC machines thanks to
the work of Eric Snowberg from Oracle.
In order to make sure GRUB works on all machines supported by the sparc64
port, we need your help to test GRUB
Hello!
On 1/11/21 2:53 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I am doing a re-install with the "default" installer and I choose the
> most trivial config options. Which is to say the partition options were
> whatever seems most trivial. Full disk. New partition table. Everything
> in one partition. The
On 1/9/21 1:12 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/9/21 1:53 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> I think this is pretty much well known but I will report it here
>> regardless. From the latest sparc64 installer images I eventually
>> see grub-ieee1275 fails.
>> (...)
>> Jan 4 19:00:02
On 1/9/21 2:33 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> May be possibly because I always use the "expert mode" option in the
> installer. That allows me to setup the network without DHCP.
Manual networking setup also works in normal mode. It will try DHCP first,
then fail and then offer manual configuration.
On 1/9/21 1:12 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 1/9/21 1:53 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> I think this is pretty much well known but I will report it here
>> regardless. From the latest sparc64 installer images I eventually
>> see grub-ieee1275 fails.
>> (...)
>> Jan 4 19:00:02
On 1/9/21 2:03 PM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
> The only situation where I can imagine this would happen is when the
> repositories have a newer version of the package than the installer
> image, and update to the latest version during installation is enabled
> (probably the default).
I have never run
> I have no clue which image you used and I'm not sure what you did to end up
> in a situation
> where the installer would try to download the grub2 packages over the net
> which are actually
> on the installation ISO, so they don't have to be downloaded.
The only situation where I can imagine
On 1/9/21 1:53 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
> I think this is pretty much well known but I will report it here
> regardless. From the latest sparc64 installer images I eventually
> see grub-ieee1275 fails.
> (...)
> Jan 4 19:00:02 in-target: Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports
> sid/main
Hi Alexander!
Could you please retest with the latest ISO image for sparc64 [1] and
check whether this issue has been resolved for you now?
We have fixed a lot of issues around GRUB on sparc64, both upstream and
in Debian and I'm confident that GRUB should work now out of the box
on your
I am failing to meet whatever
it's needs are....
- Chris
ps, re-grub-install'ing to /dev/sdd1 allowed the system to boot again.
I rebooted a few times, seems to have remained functional. I also after
a few successful boots to sdd (aka disk3), tried booting from PROM to
disk0 again, got the Ill
Sorry for the chatter on the list, all...
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:14:18PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> Adrian answered some of this before I asked the above questions:
>
> t5120# grub-install /dev/sda1
> Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform.
> grub-install: warning: File
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:37:24PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> Sorry, stupid user trick. I had mdadm and friends in the disk I was running
> on, but had _not_ installed those packages into the environment in md/ZFS
> that I chrooted into. After installing mdadm (and the collection it brought),
>
On 07/03/2018 09:24 PM, Chris Ross wrote:
> Okay. So, in prepping a chroot'd md/zfs environemnt on this machine, while
> updating the kernel packages, I see:
>
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:24:12PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> Okay. So, in prepping a chroot'd md/zfs environemnt on this machine, while
> updating the kernel packages, I see:
>
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:22:34PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> I'll run with this for a bit, and respond back with questions about getting
> it installed onto software-raid partitions later. Thanks again.
Okay. So, in prepping a chroot'd md/zfs environemnt on this machine, while
updating the
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:04:09PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> It sounds from Eric like the grub I built from him doesn't want to deal with
> gzip. But the one shipping (2.02+dfsg1-4) does? Well, easy enough to try
> that on the same disk to see. But, I presume I will face the same problem
>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:46:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Chris!
>
> Any reason why you aren't just using the normal Debian procedure to setup
> and install GRUB?
Well, IIRC, because it wasn't working for me. But, I must admit, I'm not 100%
sure I tried that on the simple
Hi Chris!
On 07/03/2018 05:38 PM, Chris Ross wrote:
> As I was mentioning in other threads, I was getting grub installed onto the
> "normal" sun-labeled ext2/4 partitioned disk in my T5120. Working with
> Eric (https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/issues/14) he helped me
> figure out that
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:44:45PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have now disabled SILO support in debian-installer meaning that
> it's no longer possible to install the SILO bootloader when installing
> Debian on sparc64.
>
> [...]
>
> GRUB is fully supported on sparc64
On 07/02/2018 05:17 AM, Chris Ross wrote:
> Hello Adrian, all. I have been working on getting grub2 running as a step
> in getting my t5120 running, as the list has been hearing from me. I was/am
> building from https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc, using the guide
>
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:45:16AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > At least with the stretch installer there is no problem with using a MBR
> > partitioning
> > on the am64 arch. You maybe can't select it, but if you generate a MBR
> > partitioning using
> > the shell inside the
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 01:09:40AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 03/02/2018 10:27 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> >> On x86, it will automatically use GPT if the machine is booted in EFI
> >> mode. ...
...
> >> I know you try to make the most compatible design to fit all use cases,
>
On 03/05/2018 11:32 AM, Hermann Lauer wrote:
At least with the stretch installer there is no problem with using a MBR
partitioning
on the am64 arch. You maybe can't select it, but if you generate a MBR
partitioning using
the shell inside the installer this will work.
Ok, after a quick look
On 03/02/2018 10:27 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> On x86, it will automatically use GPT if the machine is booted in EFI mode.
>> On sparc64, we would normally just switch to GPT if the machine supports GPT.
>
> I understand. Then it's safe to just use the subarch to select how GRUB2
> should be
On 03/02/2018 10:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Well, debian-installer normally does not allow you to choose the partition
table type.
I remember I had a problem - which must be due to that behaviour in
hindsight - when I used a GPT partitioned disk from an rx2620 in a
rp3440.
> On Mar 2, 2018, at 9:53 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>
> I don't think we can rely on the subarch value in this case, but have to
> determine the actual partitioning scheme (available in `bootfslabel` when
> running `grub-installer` or via `partmap `) to select the
Hi Adrian,
On 02/27/2018 11:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/26/2018 05:55 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Thanks for the upload. The new version works like version
2.02-2+sparc64.3 for me.
Frank, if you like, you can help improving grub-installer for sparc64.
Sure! :-) I had a first
On 02/27/2018 11:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I am building a new installer image necessary to work on this.
Image here:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
Note: This image might have issues, it's solely intended for working
on
On 02/26/2018 05:55 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Thanks for the upload. The new version works like version 2.02-2+sparc64.3 for
me.
Frank, if you like, you can help improving grub-installer for sparc64.
We have extended the hardware detection in debian-installer on sparc and
sparc64 now, so that
On 02/23/2018 11:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/23/2018 11:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just uploaded "2.02+dfsg1-1+sparc64.1" which fixes the problem.
Just wait some hours until it shows up on the regular FTP servers or
fetch it from
On 02/23/2018 11:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I just uploaded "2.02+dfsg1-1+sparc64.1" which fixes the problem.
> Just wait some hours until it shows up on the regular FTP servers or
> fetch it from https://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd/pool/main/g/.
Wrong link. Should be:
On 02/19/2018 10:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> There's a new package version (2.02+dfsg1-1) available since a few days ([1]).
>
> [1]:
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/g/grub2/grub2_2.02+dfsg1-1_changelog
>
> Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install`
I finally found time to test GRUB on my Netra T1. But then I saw this
message and am demotivated.
Please add a grub build with Erics patches to experimental.
kind regards
txt.file
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hello!
>
> On 02/19/2018 10:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> There's a new package
Hi,
On 02/19/2018 02:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install` command to
install it on the `/boot` partition over the previous version
(2.02-2+sparc64.3) breaks booting with GRUB2:
Yes, this is something I don't have any control over.
Hello!
On 02/19/2018 10:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
There's a new package version (2.02+dfsg1-1) available since a few days ([1]).
[1]:
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/g/grub2/grub2_2.02+dfsg1-1_changelog
Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install` command
On 12/08/2017 01:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to GRUB
as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC machines thanks to
the work of Eric Snowberg from Oracle.
In order to make sure GRUB works on all machines
Tested on a Sparc Ultra 10 workstation and it boots fine using your
instructions.
Had to use an image from 2016 as the newer ones from september and december
2017 did not work at all(both fail during installation).
Lshw
ultra
description: Computer
product: SUNW,375-0066
width:
Hi Adrian, hi Eric,
thanks for getting GRUB2 with support for sparc64 into Debian Ports.
Looks very good so far. :-D
On 12/08/2017 01:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
root@andi:~#
7. Report back to the list and include your hardware and partition setup
I had some spare time
I tested it on a SunFire V440 and it is booting. I plan to test it also
on a Sun Netra T1.
root@txt-sunfire-v440:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:00 67.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:10
Hi Tony!
On 12/16/2017 09:45 AM, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
> FYI, as requested, successfully installed Debian 9 using grub2 on my sun
> T5120 and T4-2.
Thanks! I'm starting to get confident now that we will be able to completely
replace SILO with GRUB on sparc and sparc64 :).
Adrian
--
.''`.
FYI, as requested, successfully installed Debian 9 using grub2 on my sun
T5120 and T4-2.
Tony Rodriguez
On 12/08/2017 04:24 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to GRUB
as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC
On 11/12/17 22:00, Frans van Berckel wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 21:23 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
On 08/12/17 12:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
So, in order to help us, please follow the guide below to install
GRUB to
replace SILO as your boot loader.
NOTE: If your
Hi Mark,
On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 21:23 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> On 08/12/17 12:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> > So, in order to help us, please follow the guide below to install
> > GRUB to
> > replace SILO as your boot loader.
> >
> > NOTE: If your system doesn't boot after
On 08/12/17 12:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
So, in order to help us, please follow the guide below to install GRUB to
replace SILO as your boot loader.
NOTE: If your system doesn't boot after installing GRUB, don't panic. Use
the current Debian sparc64 installation image
From
On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 14:37 +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 14:28 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >
> > So, I assume this means GRUB works as expected?
> >
> > Do you get the normal boot menu? Does everything work?
>
> Yes, yes and yes.
About grub.conf the
There is no separate ISO. You can just choose to install GRUB instead of SILO
when you install your machine with the current ISO.
Just go back to the main menu instead of finishing the installation at the last
installation step. Then choose „Install GRUB boot loader“, ignore the two
errors
Please provide a link to the latest ISO with grub support for sparc64. I
will happy to test if it works on my t5120, t5140, and T4-2 systems.
Tony
On 12/08/2017 05:27 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
Hi Adrian,
On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 13:24 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
We're in
On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 14:28 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 02:27 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > Sun Fire V440, No Keyboard
> > Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > OpenBoot 4.30.4.a, 20480 MB memory installed, Serial #57654521.
> > Ethernet
On 12/08/2017 02:27 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
Sun Fire V440, No Keyboard
Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.30.4.a, 20480 MB memory installed, Serial #57654521.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:6f:bc:f9, Host ID: 836fbcf9.
booting with command: boot
Boot device:
Hi Adrian,
On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 13:24 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to
> GRUB as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC machines
> thanks to the work of Eric Snowberg from Oracle.
>
> In order to make
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:17:29 +0200
Andreas Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martín Marqués wrote:
Why isn't there a version of grub for Linux SPARC?
Because SILO is much better ;-)
Heh heh :) Which reminds me, is thhe Sparc version of 3.0r6 out already? I am
running 3.0r5 on an Ultra
On Thursday 02 June 2005 14:03, Martín Marqués wrote:
Why isn't there a version of grub for Linux SPARC?
Because Sparc uses the SUN disklabel for boot disks and not the msdos
disklabel and grub does not support the SUN disklabel.
Cheers,
FJP
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