Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 7/3/23 05:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On Mon, 2023-07-03 at 05:28 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: I don't think that's true. Since it has been reported that these machines run OpenBSD, it should be a matter of reading the OpenBSD kernel sources and add the missing bits and pieces

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Mon, 2023-07-03 at 05:28 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I don't think that's true. Since it has been reported that these machines > > run OpenBSD, it should be a matter of reading the OpenBSD kernel sources > > and add the missing bits and pieces for the SPARC64 VII(+) machines to the >

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-03 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 7/2/23 17:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Dennis! Good day to you Sir! On Sun, 2023-07-02 at 14:34 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: You are likely kicking a dead horse. That M4000 is similar to my M3000 and you will never ever get Linux to run there. Ever. Unless you have a few millio

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Dennis! On Sun, 2023-07-02 at 14:34 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > You are likely kicking a dead horse. That M4000 is similar to my M3000 > and you will never ever get Linux to run there. Ever. Unless you have a > few million dollars for research and development and then be able to > push all th

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 7/2/23 06:35, Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA wrote: Hi, We are trying to boot Debian Sparc64 on a SPARC Enterprise M4000 server (SPARC64 VII+), but, after selecting normal / expert / secure install mode, we get this error message and the installer quits: *ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Ze

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA
Hi, Sure. This is what we are getting when trying to install Debian 9.0 Sparc64: --- > *{0} ok boot cdrom* > > *Boot device: /pci@0,60/pci@0/pci@8/pci@0/scsi@1/disk@3,0:f File and > args:* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *SILO

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 02.07.23 16:35, Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA wrote: Hi Frank, Thank you for your fast answer. I also thought when installing that it was an incompatibility problem with the processor architecture, as you stated. However, having a look at the wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc6

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA
Hi Frank, Thank you for your fast answer. I also thought when installing that it was an incompatibility problem with the processor architecture, as you stated. However, having a look at the wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64) it seems to me that machines with a sun4u SPARC VII+ processor shoul

Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 02.07.23 12:35, Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA wrote: Hi, We are trying to boot Debian Sparc64 on a SPARC Enterprise M4000 server (SPARC64 VII+), but, after selecting normal / expert / secure install mode, we get this error message and the installer quits: /ERROR: Last Trap:

M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64

2023-07-02 Thread Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA
Hi, We are trying to boot Debian Sparc64 on a SPARC Enterprise M4000 server (SPARC64 VII+), but, after selecting normal / expert / secure install mode, we get this error message and the installer quits: *ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Zero* *%TL:1 %TT:28 %TPC:43056c %TnPC:430570 %TSTATE:1180001603