SILO possible on fourth partition?

from scratch over again.. :( I have thought of using 'partition=1', but in that case I think I might not be able to boot Solaris anymore. Thanks for any help. Regards, Pieter-Paul Spiertz

Re: uname -p/-i

Hi, On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, James A Morrison wrote: uname -p is supposed to return the processor of the machine. uname -i is supposed to return the hardware platform. I have an Ultra 5, still trying to get it dualbooting between Solaris 9 and Woody from one IDE disk. As long as no one has a

Re: Unimplemented SPARC system call

Hi, On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Costas Magos wrote: I have just installed woody on a SPARCclassic with 16MB RAM. I have noticed some interesting outputs when the system boots: portmap[91]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 87 This is a FAQ. I think newer kernels (2.4) have fixed it. Ignore it, it is

Re: Sharing swap with Solaris?

Hi, On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Thomas A. Cort wrote: This machine has 128 MB RAM, and currently no swap under Linux. Could I just put /dev/hda2 as swap in my Debian /etc/fstab and swapon without getting Solaris problems? You can share the swap space between the two OSs however you will need to

Ethernet lockup with 2.4.21

Hi, When my Ultra 5 is receiving files (ftp/ssh etc..) at large speeds (800kB/s), the network interface can randomly lock up. I can either wait a minute to let it reset itself, or ifdown/ifup eth0 manually. If I let it wait, this is in the syslog: Jul 6 17:03:18 cruithne kernel: NETDEV

Re: Ethernet lockup with 2.4.21

Hi, On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Ben Collins wrote: When my Ultra 5 is receiving files (ftp/ssh etc..) at large speeds (800kB/s), the network interface can randomly lock up. Bad cable? Bad ethernet on either side? Cable and ethernet should be ok. Solaris 9 on the same box works fine. Regards,

Re: Status of KDE 3.1 in 'unstable'

Hi, On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Ben Collins wrote: I thought by moving to 'unstable', I could get KDE 3.1. But when I tried to update, I got this message below. Looks like some packages are not yet built for sparc. Just means you'll have to wait. It is unstable :) These packages are krita and

FAQ for porting packages available?

Hi, I'm the package maintainer of wmtune, a tiny radio tuner which makes use of the Video4Linux kernel API. I decided to upload it for Architecture: any and to resolve porting problems (like #205339) later. I started on my own Sparc. (I'm not sure how I should fix other platforms later..) wmtune

Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is by far the weirdest question I have ever sent to this list. I'm active as a voluntary in a local center to teach kids programming (Python), Unix, Povray and about everything that is cool. We do this on about ten different Suns, mostly

Re: Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Steven, On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Steven Wilcoxon wrote: Recently, however, we've been offered an Ultra Enterprise 5000. (..) Could such a dragon run Linux? If it helps any, I'm running a 14 cpu E4500 with SCSI drives attach under

Re: Hello

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in this mail, I'll reply with a few common solutions, just like I used them myself. On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jonathan Andrews wrote: I plugged in and sat down to learn Solaris 2.6 Wow - that was dull ... That's not really fair. From the Solaris

Re: Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: Anyway, thanks for your help! I'll try to return to this list when I have actually installed the beast :) I just tried to install Woody with a net installation (tftpboot.img) on this Enterprise

Re: Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?

Hi, On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Steven Wilcoxon wrote: The problem is that the driver for the differential isn't compiled into the kernel and it is a module. I got around that on a E4500+D1000 by including my driver in the kernel, but I've heard that you can force the module to load with Silo

Re: Want to have sparc-mini.iso working on my Sun Ultra 10

Hi, On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ben Collins wrote: I will try to work on the CD boot system from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/sparc-mini.iso if possible. If you (Ben?) think this is not something important, let me known which bugs you think I must work on. (..)

Re: Linux on a Sun Enterprise 5000?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Steven, On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Steven Wilcoxon wrote: Here is the 2.4.21 .config file I used. Thanks! I compiled a tftpboot.img using a kernel with an adjusted version of your .config, and it seems to recognize the StorEdge D1000 disk array now.

Kernel compile problems, revisited.

Hi, Yes, I'm still trying to build my own Linux-kernel for an Ultra Enterprise, and I still got problems :( While doing a 'make dep' on kernel-source-2.4.21, on a Debian unstable machine: tellar:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21 make dep make -C arch/sparc64/kernel check_asm make[1]: Entering

Re: Kernel compile problems, revisited.

Hi, On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: I'm still trying to build my own Linux-kernel for an Ultra Enterprise 5000 with a by default unsupported StorEdge D1000 disk cabinet. I'm trying to build a tftpboot.img Debian installer myself. [1] Is there any official documentation

Re: UFS-write problem

Hi, On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me how to shutdown from an accidental SunOS boot without being root or pulling the plug? Pressing Stop-A (L1-A) will get you immediately to the bootprompt again, without finishing services or umounting gracefully [1]. I usually

MPlayer 1.0-pre3

Hi, Just to let you know: on 9 december, MPlayer 1.0-pre3 was released and rereleased (the first version didn't even compile on any big-endian architecture.) It looks like the colour problems of the previous version have been fixed (mlib is mentioned in the long changelog), but stability is

Re: Memory not aligned kernel problem

Hi Marco, On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, marco wrote: I just compiled the 2.6.0 kernel. The compile process is just fin, byt the image i get seems not to be bootable. Right after i select the image at the sil prompt at boot i get a Memory not aligned error and i am kicked to the openboot prompt again.

Re: No floppy drive in Debian-Sparc ???

Hi Greg, On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Greg wrote: someone mentioned that installing Debian on a Sparc leaves the floppy drive unusable. I know this is true in OpenBSD-sparc, is this true of Debian-sparc and in general of linux on sparcs? I am using a SunBlade 100 See [1]. Booting from floppies on

Re: U5 - woody (2.4.24) - 3com 3crdag675 - pci wifi adapter - madwifi driver

Hi, On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, JLB wrote: Hey, it's Sunday. Give us a break. :) (..) Is /dev/hda3 a 'whole disk' partition? That is precisely how I did it. (I have an Ultra 1, BTW.) And, as noted earlier, I enabled ALL (!!!) of the various advanced partition selection (or whatever they call