know if it does crash. :)
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From: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 11:37 AM
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: AlphaServer 800 Installation
Jim,
On Fri, May 28, 2004
for the filename
would do the trick.
It could also be a problem with the alpha ignoring the bootp responses
as you say, in which case I fear I don't have any ideas how to fix it.
Perhaps a different dhcp server would work better?
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In that case, you could just edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to
testing and do an apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade; but I'd
appreciate it if you could answer the above questions, so that I can
try to fix any bugs we might have yet in aboot-installer.
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for
netbooting but don't remember what that device name is. (If in doubt,
show dev should show you whether there are SRM-recognized ethernet
cards as devices beginning with e). This is hoping that at least your
ethernet chip is supported from SRM, even if your SCSI chip isn't.
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during this period. If you would be
willing to help out, and particularly if you've had some measure of
success with d-i on alpha in the past, please contact me off-list.
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of MILO
and boot floppy support) might be to use the daily netboot images
available from http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/.
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:34:44PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:56:45PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Currently, installing sarge on a machine running AlphaBIOS is not
supported. No one has stepped forward to maintain MILO support for
sarge (and if you've seen
and then waitting for ages.
This, however, looks like a backtrace from a crash of some kind. I
can't say that I've ever seen one like it; it doesn't *look* like a
Linux kernel trace, but I don't know what it is, either. Hopefully
someone else on the list knows.
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it is and the
consequences.
Experimental does not constitute a complete distribution, and apt won't
even pull from it by default. There's probably little need to even warn
people about it, given the work it takes to actually use it. :)
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partitioner (partman) also warned about
this, but I haven't figured out yet how to detect this problem. At the
very least, I intend for this to be mentioned in the install notes.
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usually also have to specify the root
device in the flags. So possibly b -fl root=/dev/sda2 S, or if you
have an initrd, b -fl initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/sda2 S. To get
into aboot and *see* what your settings are, boot -fl i should do the
trick.
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subsystem or a different IDE controller.
FWIW, I was seeing repeated DMA timeouts with my CMD64x IDE controller
when testing with a 2.4.25 kernel in debian-installer. Crude surgery to
remove the cmd64x module from view fixed this problem handily. :)
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to be a possibility that the problems most people are
running into on alphas are caused not by bugs in the drivers for
individual controllers, but by bugs in the PCI setup routines; so PCI
bridges may cause an otherwise functional card to fail.
Thanks,
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On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:31:01PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote:
On the 4th of May 2004 at 15:41, Steve Langasek vorlon#debian.org wrote:
Could you post the output of lspci on your system?
# lspci
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment
bridge in my alpha, and it boots d-i
just fine. This probably needs to be filed as a bug on the alpha kernel
package (reassigning your install report to that package is on my todo
list).
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(DE504-BA), and removing it allowed the installer to boot.
Anyone run into similar problems?
Seems reasonable, the PCI bridge is probably on the network card in
question. :) (My PCI bridge is on the combo network/SCSI card I have.)
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MILO support for debian-installer. It's unlikely
at this point that it will be ready in time for sarge even if someone
did start working on it now; though it would at least be nice if this
was picked up again for sarge+1.
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for the 2104x cards, you might have
better luck with it.
Where would I find a working version of this module? It doesn't appear
to be included in the Debian 2.4.25 kernel packages (whose de4x5 and
tulip modules bomb out horribly on my Alpha).
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number is not assigned until the time of release.
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of a
pointer being down-cast and then up-cast again, which is a little sloppy
(mostly from the standpoint that it causes compiler warnings), but
shouldn't cause problems when running the app.
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:38:16PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As of Linux 2.6, unaligned memory access is no longer handled for you by
the kernel on alpha. These will instead generate SIGBUS errors, just as
they have forever on Linux sparc
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:48:35PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
Steve Langasek wrote:
The Acrobat Reader software has serious security problems that Adobe has
expressed a lack of interest in correcting. It's recommended that you
use xpdf instead, and report any bugs to the very responsive
responsive maintainer.
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using evms on alpha, but I can probably dig up
some patches to see whether they still apply to evms 2.2.
This ought to be filed as a grave bug against the Debian package, FWIW.
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:57:58AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
I know that evms 1.2 had problems such as this, where some unfortunate
casts resulted in 64-bit values being written to the address of a 32-bit
field. I'm
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this into the upstream configure rules,
that's fine, though it's trivial to do it in debian/rules instead (see
pseudopatch on one of the other bugs).
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2.4-series kernels
have trouble talking across PCI bridges on alphas. I would hope
someone's working on fixing this, but I know that neither 2.4.22 nor
2.4.23 can handle my ethernet/scsi card (an integrated tulip/qlogicisp
device, no idea if it has a proper name :).
Good luck,
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:01:24AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-14 00:06:05 -0600, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:29:33PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
Depending on your hardware config, you may need to back
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
On Wed, 2004-01-14 11:06:01 -0600, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Keep in mind that there are two drivers for tulip style network chips.
tulip is for the newer cards, de4x5 is for older
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:36:48PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:06:05AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
Depending on your hardware config, you may need to back down to 2.4.20
or 2.4.19 (I forget which) to get something bootable. I've been told,
and have realized now
being done on it, either. If anyone cares about being
able to install sarge on an AlphaBIOS-using system, now may be the time
to get involved in d-i development.
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not currently subscribed to this list.
Thanks,
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this results in
software that's suboptimal in one way or another. As an alpha user, I
would love to see optimized binaries that could squeeze more cycles out
of the hardware; but for Debian, dependence on a proprietary compiler is
too high a price to pay.
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variables are word size and endianness..
HTH,
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