On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Rick Leir wrote:
>
> On 2017-03-21 03:38 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> Maybe I should hook up a SCSI disk, but what I really want is an SSD. This
> old post suggests you can use a SATA->SCSI bridge:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2011-Octo
Thank you, Adrian.
These are not stupid questions at all :)
I have booted the right kernel, updated the initrd, the firmware was there,
etc.
Patch was applied with the usual "patch -p1 < patch" method.
Two chunks patched.
Looked ok.
I will contact Meelis Roos and will keep you all posted here.
It
Hi Rick,
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 07:35 -0400, Rick Leir wrote:
> Hi Frans
> (OT) A small SSD is $120 here and is the difference between an almost
> usable machine and a museum piece. How much would that bridge be on
> ebay (assuming I could locate one)?
About pricing, Amazon does $249 for the bri
On March 21, 2017 5:24:31 AM EDT, Frans van Berckel
>
>> Maybe I should hook up a SCSI disk, but what I really want is an SSD.
>
>Talking about hardware dated 2002. It's all about pci controllers and
>kernels drivers in this case, i think :-)
>
>> This old post suggests you can use a SATA->SCSI
On 03/21/2017 10:59 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
>> Are you talking about the driver or the firmware?
>
> The driver (including the sparc kernel, true).
Ok. Then it's a bug that will need some git-bisecting.
>> No, we have to fix the actual bug. Jamming an old, unsupported kernel
>> into a sparc
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 10:34 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > And yes, because Debian sparc64 runs very well with a 3.16 kernel-
> > image. The sparc backported one to be clear.
> > I extracted the package and copied it
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> And yes, because Debian sparc64 runs very well with a 3.16 kernel-
> image. The sparc backported one to be clear. I extracted the package
> and copied it manually into the new rootfs. And updated the silo.conf.
Are you talking ab
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 04:25 -0400, Rick Leir wrote:
> Hi Frans
> Thanks for the firmware info.
> I tried ctrl+f2 on a Sun keyboard but got nothing, so I tried a few
> other things. L1-A might be sending breaks, because I see @@@ and
> the machine locks up, not even in OpenProm. Next time I will u
Hi Kevin,
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 08:51 +0100, Kevin Stabel wrote:
> Hello Frans,
>
> Did you get the qlogic FC controller working in the end?
No and yes. No for the 4.9 kernel. It's all about the later qlogic
kernel driver.
And yes, because Debian sparc64 runs very well with a 3.16 kernel-
image
n the 'choose language, choose keyboard,
choose..' screen a bit and it jumped ahead without me being finished there.
OK, now I understand: the fourth item is 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I
must have chosen that.
Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
n the 'choose language,
choose keyboard, choose..' screen a bit and it jumped ahead without
me being finished there. OK, now I understand: the fourth item is
'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have chosen that.
Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
t might be "ATI Rage XL". Maybe I
should use the serial console, so I can scroll back up as you suggest below.
Thanks -- Rick
Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
ql2200_fw.bin, and that I should load it from removable media. Does this
firmware matter, an
gt; > choose keyboard, choose..' screen a bit and it jumped ahead without
> > me being finished there. OK, now I understand: the fourth item is
> > 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have chosen that.
> >
> > Now it is telling me that I need some non-free
language,
> choose keyboard, choose..' screen a bit and it jumped ahead without
> me being finished there. OK, now I understand: the fourth item is
> 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have chosen that.
>
> Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware,
e, choose keyboard,
> choose..' screen a bit and it jumped ahead without me being finished there.
> OK, now I understand: the fourth item is 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I
> must have chosen that.
>
> Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
ished there. OK, now I
> understand: the fourth item is 'Detect and mount CD-ROM', and I must have
> chosen that.
If you are installing over a serial console, you are most likely running into
this bug [1].
> Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
> q
finished there. OK, now I understand: the fourth item is 'Detect and
mount CD-ROM', and I must have chosen that.
Now it is telling me that I need some non-free firmware, filename
ql2200_fw.bin, and that I should load it from removable media. Does this
firmware matter, and where can I g
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