Re: Sunfire V880 and 480R 2.6.27.x startup hangs

2009-02-02 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:00:10PM -0800, David Miller wrote: [ 47.553935] calling of_bus_driver_init+0x0/0x12c [ 47.610180] Setting up of bus [ 47.645596] In bus_register(). [ 47.682056] Doing kobject_set_name() [ 47.724764] kset_register() I suspect it's hanging in uevent

Re: Sunfire V880 and 480R 2.6.27.x startup hangs

2009-02-02 Thread David Miller
From: Hermann Lauer hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:27:57 +0100 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:00:10PM -0800, David Miller wrote: [ 47.553935] calling of_bus_driver_init+0x0/0x12c [ 47.610180] Setting up of bus [ 47.645596] In bus_register(). [

Re: SunFire V880

2008-12-15 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Blake Self wrote: I know about the drivers (especially the qla2xxx), I'm just looking for an installer that works. I have tried the weekly and daily builds of the installer with no luck. I will look into etchnhalf and see what it does for me. Is

Re: SunFire V880

2008-12-15 Thread Hermann Lauer
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:38:48AM -0500, Blake Self wrote: Hello, Were you ever able to get Debian to install on the SunFire V880? I am having a heck of a time with it and any information that you may have would be very useful to me. Yes, debian etchnhalf runs on such a machine. You can

RE: Debian Etch on SunFire V880

2007-03-07 Thread Morgan Walker
which I received. Does anybody know what this means? -Original Message- From: Per Larsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:16 AM To: Debian Sparc Subject: Re: Debian Etch on SunFire V880 Martin skrev: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:56 -0500, Morgan Walker wrote

Re: Debian Etch on SunFire V880

2007-03-07 Thread Per Larsson
a 2.6-18 boot.img and attached the output which I received. Does anybody know what this means? -Original Message- From: Per Larsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:16 AM To: Debian Sparc Subject: Re: Debian Etch on SunFire V880 Martin skrev: On Tue

RE: Debian Etch on SunFire V880

2007-03-07 Thread Morgan Walker
] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:35 PM To: Debian Sparc Cc: Morgan Walker Subject: Re: Debian Etch on SunFire V880 On my SunFire v440 I had a Solaris 9 installation running well with 4 CPU modules. With Debian it seems it indicated one as faulty, and I had to remove at least one module

Debian Etch on SunFire V880

2007-03-06 Thread Morgan Walker
I am at a total loss. I am trying to install debian etch 3.1r5 netinst .iso on a SunFire 880 w/ OBP version 4.18.2, scsi drives, and 4G of memory via serial console. Every time it gets to Booting Linux... it appears to hang or is just throwing the output somewhere else. I have tried the

Re: Debian Etch on SunFire V880

2007-03-06 Thread Martin
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:56 -0500, Morgan Walker wrote: I am at a total loss. I am trying to install debian etch 3.1r5 netinst .iso on a SunFire 880 w/ OBP version 4.18.2, scsi drives, and 4G of memory via serial console. Every time it gets to “Booting Linux…” it appears to hang or is

Re: Debian Etch on SunFire V880

2007-03-06 Thread Per Larsson
Martin skrev: On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:56 -0500, Morgan Walker wrote: I am at a total loss. I am trying to install debian etch 3.1r5 netinst .iso on a SunFire 880 w/ OBP version 4.18.2, scsi drives, and 4G of memory via serial console. Every time it gets to “Booting Linux…” it appears

Installation Problems - Sunfire V880

2006-11-03 Thread Eder L. Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Its my first message in at list, and I couldn't see documentation about this on the internet. I am trying install the Debian Sarge in a SunFire V880[1] machine. I got the iso, check the md5sum, and burn the cd. The LILO prompt

SunFire V880

2003-07-03 Thread Nathanael Camelot
Hi all, We received at work a 6 CPU SunFire V880, and Solaris installation isn't planned before mid-August. Would it be interesting for anyone I try a debian install ? -- mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SunFire V880

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:47:04PM +0200, Nathanael Camelot wrote: Hi all, We received at work a 6 CPU SunFire V880, and Solaris installation isn't planned before mid-August. Would it be interesting for anyone I try a debian install ? It would be interesting to me. ~:^) You might note

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-23 Thread Russ Smith
It was suggest I hook up the serial console, and I have done so again, this time a bit more thoroughly, and I did NOT use diag mode on the machine. Also, I tried removing the PGX64 card in accordance with recent observations (doing so made no difference in my case whatsoever). The following is

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-15 Thread Ian Cass
Any other thoughts? :/ I had really planned everything around using Debian on this V880 as the primary machine for the department (hopefully quite soon) and boy, is it not looking promising so far... Try checking the serial console. -- Ian Cass

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-15 Thread Russ Smith
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:46:26PM +0100, Ian Cass wrote: Any other thoughts? :/ I had really planned everything around using Debian on this V880 as the primary machine for the department (hopefully quite soon) and boy, is it not looking promising so far... Try checking the serial

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-14 Thread Russ Smith
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Crappy. I bet it's just too darn big. If you have a CD burner, try the netinst.iso. I bet it'd work. Finally got a chance to try this idea. Got the netinst.iso.bz2 out of current and burned a CD of it, tossed it in and did boot

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-14 Thread Ben Collins
Any other thoughts? :/ I had really planned everything around using Debian on this V880 as the primary machine for the department (hopefully quite soon) and boy, is it not looking promising so far... Not much else I can tell you. Kernel support for this class of ultrasparc is fairly new, so it

Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-11 Thread Russ Smith
Obligatory disclaimer: I just joined this list. I should've ages ago, but naturally, I didn't until I had a problem. I'll try not to be stupid, and I have read the archives of the last few months. :) I have a brand new SunFire V880 server, two 900MHz processors, 4G RAM, 6 72G HDs, and so

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-11 Thread Ben Collins
Rebooting with command: boot net Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],70/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 File and args: (number runs up for a while, then) 489800 Instruction Access Error {2} ok Crappy. I bet it's just too darn big. If you have a CD burner, try the netinst.iso. I bet it'd work. You can

Re: Ben Collins' tftpboot.img and SunFire V880

2002-10-11 Thread Russ Smith
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Crappy. I bet it's just too darn big. Interesting. You know, it's not much bigger than the image I use without trouble on the u10s and 'blade, and the Aug 19 image was in fact much smaller but as you know still didn't pan out. Still,