Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, 38 minutes, 0 second ago, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, > > except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for > > the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for t

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 January 2006 15:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Actually, this installer has a couple of other problems. It was unable > to properly finish the base install because some packages, namely > `dash', `cramfsprogs' and `initrd-tools', could not be authenticated. > I installed them by hand u

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The installation is not over yet but it seems to be working well, > except that it did not automatically find out which driver to use for > the Ethernet card (`sunlance'), nor for the hard drive (`esp'). Could you send the output of 'prtc

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Yesterday, 21 hours, 3 minutes, 57 seconds ago, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img > MD5: da03e8b5b6a1bfd577a29aef14d26dd4 > >

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, 34 minutes, 3 seconds ago, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > If you still have trouble: which bootimage (URL)? I can try to check it for > you. I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/n

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 16:44 schrieb Frans Pop: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > > drive that's in the machine (a look

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, one hour, 12 minutes, 49 seconds ago, Frans Pop wrote: > During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot > time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection > phases. Ok, I guess I was too impatient. ;-) It turns out that I needed the `esp'

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. The SS20 is the latest 32bit Sparc workstation - max. 2 CPU modules, up to 4 CPUs. No PCI, it's SBUS based. On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:44, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically,

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me > think so), although a `

SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it. I tried pretty mu