On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jurij Smakov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:20:36AM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote: >> Hi, Michel >> >> Thanks for sharing your info on running Debian on Sun T5120. I really >> appreciate this. >> >> I haven't made the switch yet. I will probably start with running the >> test using LDOM since I don't have a physical T5120 for testing. > > Did you have any luck installing in LDOM? As you probably saw, nobody > replied on sparclinux list either, so I suspect that the CD-ROM was > never properly supported for LDOM installs.
Using vcdrom that connected to an iso image won't work in LDOM. My only option is to use tftp to boot up a LDOM session. But this task (debian in LDOM) is not in high priority for me right now. tj > > We should probably add it to wheezy errata. > >> tj >> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Michel Schanen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > we installed Debian SPARC 6.0.3 on 20 Sun T5120 Enterprise nodes >> > interconnected with infiniband cards and onboard network cards. The >> > infiniband cards are very buggy and only work over IP. Problem is that >> > there >> > are no supported infiniband drivers for Linux/SPARC. >> > >> > I recommend the Debian installation guide for SPARCs. We used the TFTP >> > method, which worked fairly well. We ran into the same trouble as you when >> > connecting a CDROM drive. >> > >> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s03.html.en >> > >> > Only trick was that the image had to be named after the IP of the >> > installation target, e.g. 192.168.0.2 -> C0.A8.00.02 >> > >> > We received these cluster nodes at no costs and we use them essentially for >> > simulation codes/testing. As the tools are all SPARC and not SPARC64 we had >> > some problems using OpenMP. For instance the atomic statement was very >> > slow. >> > After compiling gcc with arch=SPARC64 we had a considerable performance >> > boost using OpenMP. In the end, all our development tools are now >> > recompiled >> > with arch=SPARC64. >> > >> > Other than that, everything works flawlessly! NFS crashes after some weeks >> > of uptime. Therefore we do a weekly reboot. >> > >> > You will be able to log in to the ILOM SPs over SSH and eventually to your >> > system console. >> > >> > Oh and don't forget to recompile your kernel with 64 CPU support. Otherwise >> > you will be stuck with 32 or something. >> > >> > Michel >> >> >> >> -- >> T.J. Yang >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/CAD2GW8r74o7Aoi3XH6=teeizfeif23xjyo0mvqg243ab5ot...@mail.gmail.com > > -- > Jurij Smakov [email protected] > Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- T.J. Yang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAD2GW8puaVtTOJ=vmrduoca8szmdzzpej-db+k+gz6_t2qm...@mail.gmail.com
