SILO
Helo for all, I'm getting problems in the boot process. I installed Debian GNU/Linux on an old Sparc Station 4 (sun4cdm) using the Potato CDROM (kernel 2.2.19). After that I've run lots of upgrades so now I have a actualized system. Yesterday I downloaded the kernel 2.4.19 I compiled it. After that I changed my silo.conf. Now, at the SILO prompt if I type the old kernel image it works fine, but for the new one I get the following message: * boot message [end of the message, that (I guess) it is important] * kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno=2 VFS: Cannot open root device sda1 or 08:01 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom * My silo.conf is (label=linux for the old kernel, 2.2.19. label=linux-2.4.19 for the new one): * silo.conf * partition=1 root=/dev/sda1 timeout=20 image=1/vmlinuz label=linux read-only image=/vmlinux label=linux-2.4.19 read-only What's the problem: the kernel I compiled, or the silo.conf? I tryed to read /usr/share/doc/silo/README.gz, however I confess I couldn't understand it well! Sorry! Thank's for your help. Antonio L. Pacifico
Re: SILO
What's the problem: the kernel I compiled, or the silo.conf? I tryed to read /usr/share/doc/silo/README.gz, however I confess I couldn't understand it well! Sorry! The problem is the kernel you compiled. Seems you are missing scsi support or something. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
newer version lic6
Hi there, I got a big problem. I just apt-get updated and upgraded my woody system and it wanted to update 4 packages. While doing that the process broke with dpkg-error-code(1) while extracting libc6-sparc64. Now I cannot install anyting new because of unmet dependencies It always advises me to do a apt-get -f install without arguments, but it always stops witz error code (1). I got a SS20. AFAIK these are no 64Bit-Processors. So I am wondering why it needs libc6-sparc64 and -dev- version of libc6-sparc64. Anyone got an idea? Thanks in advance, Christophorus
Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R
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 HALUN PortWWW Disk Desc. 0 0 0 2104cf7f1021 Seagate ST336605FSUN366 1 1 0 2104cf7f1149 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)
Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R
You'll have a lot more luck if you use Ben Collins's current kernel images: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/
Re: newer version lic6
Anyone got an idea? Perhaps gcc-3.0 depends on them. However, BenC proposed a solution a few days ago (basically removing and re-installing libc6-sparc64). Gruss Steffan --- I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Wie gehts denn so ?
Lieber Peter und Mannu, nach dem blöden Hochwasser , uns hat es ja voll erwischt. Daher kann ich auch erst jetzt schreiben, musste mir einen neuen Computer kaufen. Ich war in Spanien auf Urlaub, nicht schlecht, Sonne ohne Ende. War auf Teneriffa, geil kann ich Euch nur sagen. Wisst Ihr mit wem? Mit Sandra, hab ich im Internet kennen gelernt. Tolles Mädchen , eigentlich hab ich nur so ein bisschen im Internet herumgesurft und kam dabei auf die Seite http://www.find-me.tv - sind viele Leute drinnen. Muss ziemlich neu sein haben auch einen Livechat. Hatten uns verabredet und sind 10 Tage später schon miteinander in Urlaub gefahren J. Sie kommt aus Berlin, sehr offenes und lustiges Persönchen (wie eigentlich alle die da drin sind). Ach ja, Manuela da sind auch viele hübsche Jungs und Männer für Dich dabei J. Wie gehts eigentlich Euren Eltern, mit Muttern wieder alles ok ? Also bis dann Chris PS: Hänge meistens ab 19.00 im Livechat herum, man sieht sich oder schreibt mal wieder.
where can I download linux for sparc?
Hi, I'm trying to download a right version of .iso image for my sparc10 which will be used as server on dsl. I went to the www.debian.org/CD/netinst site and saw some downloadable cds but after asking debian-cd@lists.debian.org I knew that they are all for platforms other than sparc. So pls let me know where to find the sparc10 image, thank you very much! Bst, Victor BTW I downloaded redhat zoot-sparc.iso and my sparc10 cdrom cannot read it, said scsi device 6,0 is not responding. I guess may be it is not compatible.
Re: where can I download linux for sparc?
BTW I downloaded redhat zoot-sparc.iso and my sparc10 cdrom cannot read it, said scsi device 6,0 is not responding. I guess may be it is not compatible. Make sure your SPARC can boot from the CDROM before going any further. Be positive you don't have a hardware problem, or you'll just be frustrated for a long time. Once all that's sorted, look up jigdo and go from there. http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd A piece of advice about jigdo: ALWAYS choose an HTTP site, NEVER choose an FTP site. I and at least one other person have bad experiences with wget trying to get things from FTP sites. I could not get my Debian SPARC ISOs built until I figured out this little idiosyncracy. If you truly want to download an ISO, I think you have to settle for 2.x (Potato?). Those are the only true ISOs I could find. All 3.x (Woody) was in jigdo format, which appears to be The Way Of The Future. Notice here: http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo There's a sparc directory at the very bottom. All this I found from debian.org following what I figured were obvious links. Enjoy, -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc.
binfmt_elf.o
I have an error on my Debian system: -- depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/fs/binfmt_elf.o There was a problem running depmod. This may be benign, (You may have versioned symbol names, for instance). Or this could be an error. In any case, since depmod is run at install time, we could just defer running depmod Would you like to abort now? [Yes] -- Looking at the mail archives, it is claimed that this only affects you if you're trying to run 64-bit userspace (which I wager I'm not). However, every time I run apt-get ANYOPTION ANYTHING, it will remember it had this error before, and will keep asking me if I want to abort the reconfigure of kernel-image-2.4.18-sun4u (the package above). How do I make it stop asking this question? -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc.
