Bug#315978: [sparc64] can't net install on v210

2005-07-07 Thread Joey Hess 
Dave Love wrote:
 More info on this...
 
 The sparc list reports that tg3 is known not to work since it needs
 firmware which has been removed.  In that case I think the driver
 should be removed and this should be documented, especially as it
 isn't clear the driver has failed with a 2.6 kernel.

The tg3 driver works for any tg3 card which already contains usable
firmware. This is many of them on i386, but I don't know about sparc.
Removing the driver (which happened in Debian's 2.6.11 kernel BTW), is
not the best approach.

AFAIK this will be resolved in Debian's 2.6.12 kernel, since the
firmware has been relicensed.

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Bug#315978: [sparc64] can't net install on v210

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Love 
The fundamental problem turned out to be that the system had 1GB of
memory.  Replacing that with 512MB allows the installer to proceed.

However, it won't load the driver for the onboard ethernet with a 2.4
kernal (`error on modprobe -v tg3').  A modprobe in the shell
produces:

  Using /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-sparc64/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.o
  insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-sparc64/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.o: unresolved 
symbol request_firmware_R29d3fa0a
  insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-sparc64/kernel/drivers/net/tg3.o: unresolved 
symbol release_firmware_R6ef56f31
  
The 2.6 kernel takes a long time apparently loading the driver, but it
doesn't seem to work then.  dmesg shows this, once for each of the
four interfaces:

  tg3.c:v3.10 (September 14, 2004)
  tg3: tg3_request_firmware (eth%d): Couldn't get firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0.
  tg3: eth%d: Firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0 not loaded; continuing without TSO.
  eth0: Tigon3 [partno(Sun 570X) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) 
10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:5a:0d:f7
  
#282728 also reports problems with tg3 (on x86?), but with no details.


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Bug#315978: [sparc64] can't net install on v210

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Love 
More info on this...

The sparc list reports that tg3 is known not to work since it needs
firmware which has been removed.  In that case I think the driver
should be removed and this should be documented, especially as it
isn't clear the driver has failed with a 2.6 kernel.

I found an hme card and did a net install via that.  The disk had
Solaris on it originally, intended for dual boot and the installation
trashed it.  On the reboot after initial installation, it booted
solaris, not silo, which failed like this:

  Rebooting with command: boot  
  Boot device: disk  File and args: 
  SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bit
  Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
  Use is subject to license terms.
  WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 
(sd0):
  Corrupt label - bad geometry
  
  Label says 71135847 blocks; Drive says 71132959 blocks
  WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 
(sd0):
  Corrupt label - bad geometry
  
  Label says 71135847 blocks; Drive says 71132959 blocks
  WARNING: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 
(sd0):
  Corrupt label - bad geometry
  
  Label says 71135847 blocks; Drive says 71132959 blocks
  Cannot mount root on /[EMAIL PROTECTED],60/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED],0:a fstype ufs
  
  panic[cpu0]/thread=180e000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
  
  0180b960 genunix:vfs_mountroot+290 (800, 200, 200, 1835200, 11cac00, 
187f400)
%l0-3:  0109c268 0109c000 0109c34c
%l4-7: 0109c000 0109c068 018ad400 0600
  0180ba20 genunix:main+88 (1813c98, 1011c00, 1834340, 18a7c00, 0, 
1813800)
%l0-3: 0180e000 0001 0180c000 01835200
%l4-7: 70002000 0001 0181ba54 
  
  skipping system dump - no dump device configured
  rebooting...

I started again, repartitioning the disk as the installer showed no
partitions, so it really was clobbered.  Then the reboot fails
similarly to this with either a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel install:

  SILO Version 1.4.9
  boot: 
  Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel
  Uncompressing image...
  Loaded kernel version 2.6.8
  Loading initial ramdisk (3227648 bytes at 0x1F802000 phys, 0x40C0 virt)...
  |
  Remapping the kernel...  ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Instruction Access MMU 
Miss
  
  Error -256 
  ok 


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