Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 03:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 03:07 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: >> Started installing in an LDOM, seems to be working fine. Came as far as >> specifying the mirror, where I'm a bit lost as to what I should specify >> to make reprepo create a local repo

Re: Need help debugging silo

On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 13:18 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 12:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > > The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check > > > whether Oracle has a patched version. > > > > The Oracle devtoolset sources (incl binutils) are

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 06:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 06:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hmm, let me test the new image first once it has been built. Might >> be that we don't need a mirror after all. Could be that d-i couldn't >> just use ftp.debian-ports.org because

Re: Need help debugging silo

Nice job everyone! On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/29/2015 12:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > >> The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check > >> whether Oracle has a patched version. > > > > The

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 05:57 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: > I have a server sitting in the cloud currently not doing anything > useful. It has a fairly good Internet connection. If I am pointed to > some instructions I could set up a dedicated mirror for SPARC64. Sounds good. Let me just test everything

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 06:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 05:57 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: >> I have a server sitting in the cloud currently not doing anything >> useful. It has a fairly good Internet connection. If I am pointed to >> some instructions I could set up a dedicated

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 06:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hmm, let me test the new image first once it has been built. Might > be that we don't need a mirror after all. Could be that d-i couldn't > just use ftp.debian-ports.org because the suite was still set to > "stretch" which

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

I have a server sitting in the cloud currently not doing anything useful. It has a fairly good Internet connection. If I am pointed to some instructions I could set up a dedicated mirror for SPARC64. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Still doesn't work really. Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real hardware? Damn-

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

with command: boot cdrom Boot device: /pci@1e,60/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args: SILO Version 1.4.14 EXT2 superblock magic is wrong EXT2 superblock magic is wrong \ Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux sid! This is a Debian installation CDROM, built

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:39 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 01:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso installed from this cd/iso version into LDOM, using

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 29/12/15 19:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Still doesn't work really. > > Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of > my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real > hardware? Can

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Still doesn't work really. Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real hardware? Damn- can anybody remind me how to

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >I have changed the suite to "sid" now: > >> >https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso I think it's just the signature of the archive which the installer can't verify. From the log after the selection of debian-ports as mirror: Dec 29 21:04:35

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 08:53 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Can you post your QEMU command line? By default you should get a slirp > user-space stack that can talk to the outside world. $ qemu-system-sparc64 -net nic -net user -nographic -m 512 -cdrom ./debian-cd-created/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 29/12/15 20:50, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Still doesn't work really. >>> >>> Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of >>> my qemu setup. Can

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 10:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 10:18 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> Am I grateful for my serial console :-) But to me it looks like the >> installer is just missing a public key for debian-ports.org? > > Which I don't really understand because I explicitly

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 06:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Still doesn't work really. Ok, this seems to be a problem with the network configuration of my qemu setup. Can anybody report back who sits in front of real hardware? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 10:18 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Am I grateful for my serial console :-) But to me it looks like the > installer is just missing a public key for debian-ports.org? Which I don't really understand because I explicitly told debian installer which keyring to use [1], namely

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 29/12/15 20:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 08:53 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> Can you post your QEMU command line? By default you should get a slirp >> user-space stack that can talk to the outside world. > > $ qemu-system-sparc64 -net nic -net user -nographic -m 512

Need help debugging silo

Hi! Something with the version of silo I built from source on sparc64 is amiss: Version from sparc: (sparc64 host): genisoimage -G boot/isofs.b -B ... -r -o test.iso boot/ (amd64 host): qemu-system-sparc64 -nographic -m 512 -cdrom test.iso -boot d OpenBIOS for Sparc64 Configuration device id

Re: Need help debugging silo

On 29/12/15 11:03, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/29/2015 11:52 AM, Richard Mortimer wrote: >> From memory the conversion to a.out is done by the elftoaout binary from >> sparc-utils. It maybe that the problem lies in there rather than in silo >> itself. > Right! > > That must be it: > >

Re: Need help debugging silo

On 12/29/2015 12:18 PM, Bryce wrote: > Having just looked, it carries a small patch (elftoaout-include.patch) which > modifies the Exec struct, though now that I look at it, as mentioned by Mark, > those should probably be u_int32_t for portability between 32/64. > We didn't make any changes to

New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi! As the debian infrastructure seems to be down at the moment, I have uploaded my latest image to my webspace at work: > http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso Feedback, please. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 29/12/15 12:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > As the debian infrastructure seems to be down at the moment, I have > uploaded my latest image to my webspace at work: > >> > http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > > Feedback,

Re: Need help debugging silo

On 29/12/15 10:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Mark! > > On 12/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> The a.out magic (0x107) is located at bytes 0x202-0x204 in the working >> image but appears at bytes 0x206-0x207 in the broken image. It looks >> like somehow your 64-bit SILO

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 03:07 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: > Started installing in an LDOM, seems to be working fine. Came as far as > specifying the mirror, where I'm a bit lost as to what I should specify > to make reprepo create a local repo for stretch. Normally you should be able to just use a

Re: Need help debugging silo

On 29/12/15 09:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > Something with the version of silo I built from source on sparc64 is > amiss: > > Version from sparc: > > (sparc64 host): genisoimage -G boot/isofs.b -B ... -r -o test.iso boot/ > (amd64 host): qemu-system-sparc64 -nographic -m 512

Re: Need help debugging silo

Hi Mark! On 12/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > The a.out magic (0x107) is located at bytes 0x202-0x204 in the working > image but appears at bytes 0x206-0x207 in the broken image. It looks > like somehow your 64-bit SILO build is extending the a.out header fields > from 32-bits to

Re: Need help debugging silo

On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 12:03 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check > whether Oracle has a patched version. The Oracle devtoolset sources (incl binutils) are available here ...

Re: Need help debugging silo

On 12/29/2015 12:24 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: >> The unsigned long probably becomes 64 bit on sparc64. I'll check >> whether Oracle has a patched version. > > The Oracle devtoolset sources (incl binutils) are available here ... Not necessary, thanks. The bug was in elftoaout which made bogus

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 29 December 2015 at 13:40, Mark Cave-Ayland < mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: > On 29/12/15 12:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > As the debian infrastructure seems to be down at the moment, I have > > uploaded my latest image to my webspace at work: > > > >> > > >

Re: Need help debugging silo

Hi, On 29/12/2015 10:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Mark! > > On 12/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> The a.out magic (0x107) is located at bytes 0x202-0x204 in the working >> image but appears at bytes 0x206-0x207 in the broken image. It looks >> like somehow your 64-bit

Re: Need help debugging silo

On 12/29/2015 11:52 AM, Richard Mortimer wrote: > From memory the conversion to a.out is done by the elftoaout binary from > sparc-utils. It maybe that the problem lies in there rather than in silo > itself. Right! That must be it: typedef struct { unsigned long a_magic;/*

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/29/2015 01:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso As a heads-up, you will probably create a local mirror from debian-ports which you then specify during installation: >