Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/29/19 12:52 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:51 AM Gregor Riepl wrote: >> - Using the default partitioning scheme, the installer configures a /boot >> partition that is only 100MB (on a 120GB ATA disk). This is too small to hold >> more than one kernel plus initrd,

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-29 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 3:51 AM Gregor Riepl wrote: > - Using the default partitioning scheme, the installer configures a /boot > partition that is only 100MB (on a 120GB ATA disk). This is too small to hold > more than one kernel plus initrd, apparently - I had trouble upgrading the > kernel

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/13/19 2:50 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote: > - The new GRUB-based CD boot works well. Kudos! Thanks. > - Mirror listing during install and automatic sources.list config afterwards > is still broken, requiring manual changes according to > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2016/06/msg00126.html

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-12 Thread Gregor Riepl
Hi, Finally got around to test the updated image on my Ultra 10 now. A few things to note: - The new GRUB-based CD boot works well. Kudos! - Mirror listing during install and automatic sources.list config afterwards is still broken, requiring manual changes according to

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/11/19 4:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The Oracle folks I spoke with have zero clue about it. Zero. > Less than zero would be that no one even knows that they still sell > sparc systems and others are just all about the database and cloud > and still others are even more confused. However the

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/11/19 10:05 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/11/19 3:37 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: A few folks from Oracle got back to me and let me know that they don't have Linux on sparc at all. Period.  Some stupid sales rep just says to me "yes, sure, we run that !" when in fact he hasn't a

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/11/19 3:37 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > A few folks from Oracle got back to me and let me know that they don't > have Linux on sparc at all. Period.  Some stupid sales rep just says to > me "yes, sure, we run that !" when in fact he hasn't a damn clue. That's not correct though. Here's some

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 10:06 PM, Rick Leir wrote: Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Thanks -- Rick A few folks from Oracle got back to me and let me know that they don't have Linux on sparc at all. Period.

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi all, On 5/10/19 07:00, Meelis Roos wrote: Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? I have not tried on my V880

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-10 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hi, I don't know for this machine. On my V880, there was a second loop going to the disk backplane. I unplugged it, and everything started working. I know this is pretty circumstantial, but don't know if i can do more for you. I did exchange some emails with the guy that wrote the driver to try

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > https://oss.oracle.com/linux-sparc/isos/ I downloaded https://oss.oracle.com/linux-sparc/isos/linux-sparc-1.0-DVD.iso It was made by genisoimage in 2015 and has a Sun disk label like debian-10.0-sparc64-grub-NETINST-1.iso of 27 Apr 2019. Have a nice day :)

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2019-05-10 04:06, Rick Leir wrote: >Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for >Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. >Thanks -- Rick https://oss.oracle.com/linux-sparc/isos/

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/10/19 4:06 AM, Rick Leir wrote: > Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle > Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Oracle Linux for SPARC no longer exists as the project was canned. You can download the last releases from here though: >

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Meelis Roos
Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? I have not tried on my V880 but I got similar trouble on V480. But where is

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Rick Leir
Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Thanks -- Rick On May 9, 2019 5:00:52 PM EDT, Dennis Clarke wrote: >On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: >>> Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Rick Leir
Yes, and most homes have that plug behind the stove in the kitchen and for the dryer in the laundry room. It is easy to wire up another like this in the contact breaker panel. Cheers -- Rick On May 9, 2019 4:02:57 PM EDT, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:03 PM Meelis Roos wrote: > > Given that it works on

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Meelis Roos
Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of the box. Yes,

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 4:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. Otherwise I would run it at home. I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase power outlet. Well a UPS is needed

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread James Clarke
On 9 May 2019, at 20:31, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the >> following Debian Ports architectures: >> [...] >> * sparc64 >> >> I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. > Otherwise I would run it at home. I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase power outlet. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer -

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 9:55 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 > should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of > those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I > will give that a look see and also I

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>     - Installation over a serial console is currently broken >>   on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package >>   (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. >>   Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. > > Looks like

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 3:33 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived.

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Meelis Roos
[2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [3]:

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 3:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Adrian, On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...]   * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...] * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test those images and report back over the

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
It can't be that that much of an issue, because OpenBSD runs on these machines (according to [4] and my tests on serveral PRIMEPOWER 250s). And for the Linux kernel you can actually see some Linux kernel messages before the machine experiences a red state exception... [4]:

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/9/19 20:01, Dennis Clarke wrote: I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ... No I am not ignoring you. I simply didn't recall over my

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures:  

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures:   * alpha   * hppa   * ia64   * m68k   *

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures:   * alpha   * hppa   * ia64   * m68k   * powerpc   * ppc64   * sh4   * sparc64 I

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 6:34 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of >> the Fujitsu machines aren't supported by the Linux kernel. > > Oh dear. Well, you can try whether it boots. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 12:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 6:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I have never touched any of those machines, but

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 6:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for > the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? > > Or even M4000 ? I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of the Fujitsu machines

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was