Hi, I've tried to install Debian 3 in a SunFire 280R Utra Sparc-III with no success. I wonder if anybody can give me a hint?
First problem occurred after the boot sequence started (prior to any installation), the process was interrupted complaining the absence of sparc64.gz. We tried /boot/sparc64 at lilo prompt to work around the problem. Then, the boot sequence dies right after "SCSI subsystem Revision 1.0" with message: "Error(0): Cheetah Error Trap... Highest Priority Error: Bus error response from system bus ...Panic Irreciverable deferred error trap." Other boot options (different than default) died with: "clock_probe: problem, cannot find bus to search" I have tracked down that message to arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c in function void __init clock_probe(void) . There, variable busnd is set to flag value -1 that indicates no bus found. Are there any success stories of debian-sparc instalation in the same hw ? Is there any story of simmilar failure in this or any other platform ? I gathered some extra info about SunFire 280R that might help judging compatibility: - I/O 40 Mbs Ultra SCSI (SCSI-3 synchronous) - Internal SCSI Fast/Narrow (with DVD support) - cpu clock 900 Mhz - 4 PCI buses 3 with 33MHz & 1 with (33|66) MHz - archtecture Superscalar Sparc v9 - MMU with 64 I-TLB entries & 64 D-TLB entries - cache: 64 Kb (data) 32 Kb (instruction) Running probe SCSI at OpenBoot prompt gave me: LiD HA LUN PortWWW Disk Desc. 0 0 0 21000004cf7f1021 Seagate ST336605FSUN366 1 1 0 21000004cf7f1149 " Since I have not subscribed to this list, I kindly ask you to reply also to my personal address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. TIA regards, Senra -- Rodrigo Senra MSc Computer Engineer (GPr Sistemas Ltda) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~921234 (LinUxer 217.243) (ICQ 114477550)
