RE: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread Richard Mortimer
bit more complex. One place of interest might be http://www.sun.com/servers/alom.html Richard > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 July 2005 14:27 > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blade 1000 boot problem

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread seb
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:00:27PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Not exactly sure of the origin, but I used to use it in a Compaq server > > farm > > and it is a great idea, especially for remote / adsl connections. > > > > After all, workig

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:34, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> Quoting Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Yes, when the v210 was frozen, I had to reset it via the lights-out >> > management system. >> >> The 'lights-out management system'? Is that a Solaris thin

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread Jon Biddell
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:34, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, when the v210 was frozen, I had to reset it via the lights-out > > management system. > > The 'lights-out management system'? Is that a Solaris thing? It's a Compaq-originated thing - an interface

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, when the v210 was frozen, I had to reset it via the lights-out > management system. The 'lights-out management system'? Is that a Solaris thing? -- FBI KGB counter-intelligence NORAD Rule Psix nuclear Panama Ft. Meade cryptographic cracking Legion of

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, when the v210 was frozen, I had to reset it via the lights-out > management system. The 'lights-out management system'? Is that a Solaris thingie? -- NSA ammunition Ortega Legion of Doom Saddam Hussein Kennedy Waco, Texas explosion plutonium cryptogr

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Love
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eh? Not sure what you mean here... Please elaborate (so I'm warned :). What you say below, except that I've seen something similar interrupting an attempted boot of Solaris too, and the v210 does reboot happily multiple times. > What I DO know abou

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-19 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This only happened ONCE for me. I thought I was going to get a heart >> attach! :) > > For what it's worth, another way to get into the catatonic state is > with stop-A during reboot -- not exactly sure at

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-19 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You will find that running a 2.6 kernel is _a lot_ of hassle! There's >> something >> with the machine/kernel that makes everything work very irradic. I know, my >> primary server is a SB1k and I've had a lot of strange kernel hangs, krashes >> etc.. Kernel 2.4

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This only happened ONCE for me. I thought I was going to get a heart > attach! :) For what it's worth, another way to get into the catatonic state is with stop-A during reboot -- not exactly sure at what stage. I've seen it on a blade 100 and, I th

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No dice - I had thought the same thing and after letting it sit off for > about 10 mins powered it on. > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dave Love wrote: > >> Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and jus

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Tib wrote: > So I'm trying to install woody right now from the main debian site instead > of sarge, so far so good (and thankfully avoiding the pitfall of keyboard > problems). If the 2.6 kernel is faster, I'd certainly like to try it but I > think I may wait until I can build

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
> You will find that running a 2.6 kernel is _a lot_ of hassle! There's > something > with the machine/kernel that makes everything work very irradic. I know, my > primary server is a SB1k and I've had a lot of strange kernel hangs, krashes > etc.. Kernel 2.4 actually worked better, although a lot

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Tib
No dice - I had thought the same thing and after letting it sit off for about 10 mins powered it on. On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Dave Love wrote: > Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just > > stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whate

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've recently been given a blade 1000 and have been trying to get debian > installed on it. It didn't like the cd's I made so I'm having to do a > tftpboot process, which isn't all that bad. > > If I try to use the boot.img from: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/di

Re: blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Love
Tib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just > stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead > in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long > while in case it was just chugging

blade 1000 boot problem

2005-07-10 Thread Tib
I've recently been given a blade 1000 and have been trying to get debian installed on it. It didn't like the cd's I made so I'm having to do a tftpboot process, which isn't all that bad. If I try to use the boot.img from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/current//imag