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
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:
Hi!
On 06.06.23 16:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 16:19 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 06.06.23 15:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
I have created updated installation images for Debian Ports.
These can be found here:
- https
Hi Adrian,
On 06.06.23 15:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
I have created updated installation images for Debian Ports.
These can be found here:
- https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-06/
I have already successfully tested the sparc64 installer.
On what
Hi Connor,
On 17.12.22 14:51, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hello All,
i still have trouble with newer kernels than 5.6.0 on my Ultra25 up to
and including 6.0.0.
During boot the USB ohci-pci dies and mouse and keyboard (both Sun HW)
stop working.
I found no way to get mouse and keyboard
Hi Adrian,
On 24.11.22 19:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[...]
Would be a nice surprise if this particular stability issue has been
fixed now.
Machine is still running with the 6.0.0 kernel which is definitely a
huge improvement
over the 5.x kernels which would have already crashed the
Hi Adrian,
On 23.11.22 16:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 11/23/22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
let's see how 6.0 will fare for you.
[...]
Would be a nice surprise if this particular stability issue has been
fixed now.
Indeed. I will test it with my reproducer (i.e. apt upgrade
Hi Riccardo,
On 23.11.22 17:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
[...]
let's see how 6.0 will fare for you.
I did try to mount nfs v3 on my system and it worked, I did a classic
mount with mount.nfs once booted. Mount works and I was able list and to
touch and remove a file. I did not try further
Hi Riccardo
On 22.11.22 00:52, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
On 2022-11-18 10:16:07 +0100 Frank Scheiner wrote:
IIRC in the past newer kernels (>5.9.0-2) already crashed during startup
on your T2000. "Running kernel 6.0.x" would then be already an
advancement. That gives hope for Ul
Hi Riccardo,
On 18.11.22 02:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I fetched the older version of git-man required from
snapshot.debian.org, installed it with dpkg. Then I was able to install
git, compile stuff again and also finish upgrading. Running kernel 6.0.x
serie son the Niagara CPU now... let's
Hi Jake,
On 13.10.22 07:13, j...@pawlicker.com j...@pawlicker.com wrote:
I've also been able to confirm that this happens with Kernel 5.16 or at
least similar bugs do such as Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference, programs such as postgresql break dramatically, and another
time SSH
Hi Betrand, Dennis,
On 13.05.22 17:32, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
Dennis Clarke a écrit :
Thus with 64G of ECC memory and four very expensive 15k rpm SAS disks
the thing is a brick. Or is it ?
Is there any reasonable way to :
[A] netboot Debian
[B] toss it on a scrap heap for re-cycle
Hi Riccardo, all,
On 17.01.22 21:35, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Not nice. I started compiling some stuff and the box froze, I connected
serial console and could not resume due to Fast Data Access MMU miss"
So, this crash occurs with
Hi guys,
On 11.12.21 18:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 12/11/21 18:40, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I remember you bisected about the breaking commits. Has there been any progress?
A better place where to report this issue other than this mailing list?
The proper place is to send an
Hi Robin,
On 17.05.21 12:36, Robin Cremer wrote:
[...]
On a not entirely unrelated note:
Are there any news on functioning netboot images? The last post I could
find points to images from April '17 on your webspace, which were,
according to the ML, not bootable because of the size.
At least I
On 24.03.21 17:33, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 24.03.21 17:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 04:58:39PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
[ 20.090279] [<006c6494>] sys_mount+0x114/0x1e0
[ 20.090338] [<006c6454>] sys_mount+0xd4/0x1e0
[
On 24.03.21 17:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 04:58:39PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
[ 20.090279] [<006c6494>] sys_mount+0x114/0x1e0
[ 20.090338] [<006c6454>] sys_mount+0xd4/0x1e0
[ 20.090499] [<00406274>] linux_sparc
On 24.03.21 16:22, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2021-03-24 14:57, Frank Scheiner wrote:
(gdb) l *(sys_mount+0x114/0x1e0)
0x6c6380 is in __se_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:3390).
/0x1e0 does not normally belong there. Just
l *(sys_mount+0x114)
I guess this comes from my log
On 24.03.21 09:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565
...is broken on my T1000.
As I don't know how big attachments can be on this list, I put the logs
on pastebin.
A log for 028abd9222df is here
On 24.03.21 14:24, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 24.03.21 14:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/24/21 2:09 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:> Kernel sources are not available on
the T1000.
If need be, where do they need to exist and
On 24.03.21 14:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/24/21 2:09 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:> Kernel sources are not available on
the T1000.
If need be, where do they need to exist and how should the directory be
named - `/usr/src/[...]`?
Try installing "linux-source"
On 24.03.21 09:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565
...is broken on my T1000.
As I don't know how big attachments can be on this list, I put the logs
on pastebin.
A log for 028abd9222df
On 24.03.21 13:42, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 3:31 PM Frank Scheiner wrote:
Sorry, but I can't install `gdb` on my T1000 ATM, because it depends on
"libpython3.8" for sparc64 (see [1]) and "libpython3.9" for the other
architectures, but "
On 24.03.21 09:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565
...is broken on my T1000.
As I don't know how big attachments can be on this list, I put the logs
on pastebin.
A log for 028abd9222df is here
On 23.03.21 17:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:> Frank, can you double check
that commit
67e306c6906137020267eb9bbdbc127034da3627 really still works, and
only 028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565 broke your setup?
So I manually checked out both 67e306c6906137020267eb9bbdbc127034da3627
and
On 23.03.21 17:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 05:50:59PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Some participants in the discussion over at the debian-sparc list mentioned
"NFS" and "Invalid argument", which is something I know just too well from
iptables. NFS is a filesystem that
Hi,
On 23.03.21 17:30, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Hi,
can anyone possible give a list of known stable kernel versions for
SPARC machines? (is there a difference necessary between
architectures/old vs. newer machines? sun4u/sun4v)?
Also this instability manifests such that the machine is
Hi Jan,
On 23.03.21 16:36, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tuesday 2021-03-23 16:29, Frank Scheiner wrote:
```
[...]
Begin: Retrying nfs mount ... [ 41.753937] NFS: mount program didn't
pass remote address
mount: Invalid argument
I seem to recall that NFS is one of those filesystems
Hi all,
On 09.03.21 13:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi all,
while I was able to "install" correctly using a slightly older ISO, I
get not a bootable system. The kernel appears to crash very early during
boot.
Anybody else has this issue?
Booting `Debian GNU/Linux'
Loading Linux
Hi,
On 22.03.21 22:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/22/21 10:30 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Riccardo Mottola first recognized a problem with 5.10.x kernels on his
Sun T2000 with UltraSPARC T1 (details in [this thread]). I could verify
the problem also on my Sun T1000 and it looks like
Dear all,
Riccardo Mottola first recognized a problem with 5.10.x kernels on his
Sun T2000 with UltraSPARC T1 (details in [this thread]). I could verify
the problem also on my Sun T1000 and it looks like this specific issue
breaks the mounting of the root FS or maybe mounting file systems at
Hi Adrian,
On 17.03.21 13:39, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/17/21 1:22 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
```
johndoe@x4270:~/git-projects/torvalds/linux$ git bisect bad
028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565 is the first bad commit
[...]
Did you verify that reverting this commit
Hi Adrian, Riccardo
so I'm finished with bisecting and it points to the following commit as
first bad commit:
```
johndoe@x4270:~/git-projects/torvalds/linux$ git bisect bad
028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565 is the first bad commit
commit 028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565
Author:
Hi Adrian,
On 16.03.21 14:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello Frank!
On 3/16/21 2:07 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
After a first cross compile run, I can confirm that 5.10-rc1 is also
broken on my T1000. I'll take this version (parent commit:
33def8498fdde180023444b08e12b72a9efed41d
Hi again,
On 16.03.21 14:07, Frank Scheiner wrote:
@Adrian:
After a first cross compile run, I can confirm that 5.10-rc1 is also
broken on my T1000. I'll take this version (parent commit:
33def8498fdde180023444b08e12b72a9efed41d) as "bad". But taking v5.9 as
good means more than 50
hardware
thread) that looked very similar to the ones you see. And this happens
even with "working" kernels (tested 4.19.x and 5.9.x). So the actual
result of that problem in 5.10.x seems to be that the kernel can't find
its root FS.
On 11.03.21 23:43, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 11.0
On 14.03.21 18:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/14/21 5:55 PM, Mike Tremaine wrote:
Let’s assume it’s not hardware, Dennis has posted the tests and states
the machine ran Sol10 fine.
The fact that Solaris runs fine can be an indicator the hardware is okay, but
it's not a proper
Hi Dennis,
On 13.03.21 20:21, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 3/13/21 5:29 PM, Mike Tremaine wrote:
On Mar 12, 2021, at 5:56 AM,
Dennis Clarke wrote:
[...]
I did sent a BRK to the serial port and that drops us into the firmware
"ok" prompt. There is a failed fan but in fact the fan is entirely not
-sparc/2021/03/msg00010.html
Frank Scheiner wrote:
If I remember there was a repository with many snapshots of different
versions, already as package, which one can test quickly. That way we
can restrict breakage range without git bisect.
Do you have a link?
I assume you mean "
Hi Riccardo,
On 10.03.21 10:17, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Frank Scheiner wrote:
We have an older UltraSPARC IIIi that has issues with newer kernels, but
usually only after longer operation and the issue might be related to
the
bug that was just fixed recently by Rob Gardner.
Which kernel
On 09.03.21 22:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 3/9/21 9:38 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have a T1000 with which I could try to reproduce Riccardo's issues.
Hardware wise they should be pretty similar. As the T1000 doesn't have a
CDROM, I'll try to netboot a few newer kernels and report
Hi guys,
On 09.03.21 18:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
On 3/9/21 6:26 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
while I was able to "install" correctly using a slightly older ISO, I get not a
bootable
system. The kernel appears to crash very early during boot.
Hi Mark,
On 24.02.21 14:01, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 24/02/2021 12:29, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 24.02.21 12:14, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Next time you have the U450 fired up, I'd be interested to find out if
it is possible to boot directly from the latest debian ports CDROM for
comparison
Hi Mark,
On 24.02.21 14:01, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
On 24/02/2021 12:29, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 24.02.21 12:14, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Thanks for the information! Do you have a display on your U450 at all?
No, access was/is via serial console.
The U450 we were trying to rescue
Hi Adrian,
On 24.02.21 13:04, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Mark!
On 2/24/21 12:14 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Do people still run newer kernels on older hardware? If there is interest,
I may be able to get some more diagnostic information. In particular I'd be
curious to know if Oracle
Hi Mark,
On 24.02.21 12:14, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
[...]
I then asked them to work backwards through a collection of historical
debian-ports ISOs that I own until we found one that would boot. The
results were as follows:
debian-10.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (kernel 5.9.0-1-sparc64, grub) -
On 22.06.20 18:30, Gregor Riepl wrote:
Rethinking that, I assume if an UltraSPARC machine boots from a CDROM
drive attached to the built-in ATA controller and the installer later
can find the disc to start the installation, it should also work with
HDDs on that controller, though maybe not with
On 22.06.20 17:37, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
Can you by any chance tell me how i could obtain a list of all PCI
cards that are possibly supported and might work on debian sparc?
Sorry, no idea. I avoid disks in my machines wherever possible.
Even the list from OpenBSD ([1]) for PCI IDE
On 22.06.20 17:17, Gregor Riepl wrote:
@all:
Are there any users that had success with Promise based ATA controllers
on UltraSPARC?
As a matter of fact, I do. I had a software RAID running on 2 SATA disks
on a Promise SATA300 TX4 controller and even built a custom mounting
bracket for my old
On 22.06.20 16:58, Mike Tremaine wrote:
[...] Worth checking, I’ll have look at the drive code and see if I
can make sense of it. A follow up question might be does anyone have
ATA based install other than the Ultra 5/10 running? Example does
anyone have SunFire v100 running debian 9 or 10? I
Hi Mike, all on the list,
On 22.06.20 02:06, Mike Tremaine wrote:
[...]
Can you try replacing the IDE cable or try a different disk?
Adrian
[...]
Sadly no good outcome. Different cables made no difference, I tried a
PDC20269 Card (which uses pata_pdc2027x
On 21.06.20 19:21, Mike Tremaine wrote:
I spent a few hours trying different things on this but no luck.
Hardware: Sun Ultra 5 - 333mhz / 512MB - Promise 100 PCI card as IDE
interface..
Install Image:2020-05-30/debian-10.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
Boots CDROM and finds disks no problem.
Hi,
On 6/1/19 04:52, Sonnie Hook wrote:
I have installed Debian/SPARC port from ISO image of 2019-05-24. At
first, I just followed the default "Use entire disk" to partition the
whole disk into
/dev/sda1 grub-boot
/dev/sda2 /
/dev/sda3 swap
GRUB was installed without any error message. But when
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
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
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
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
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
changing lists...
On 5/2/19 11:23, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Slightly off topic but I really need to do some SPARC testing as I am
swimming in that stuff. There just is no way to keep Solaris running
anymore on anything older than eight or nine years ago and so testing
my fav Linux distro seems
On 4/24/19 22:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 4/24/19 9:46 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> For reference the CHRP bootinfo.txt isn't a configuration file, but is
>> actually
>> parsed by CHRP-compliant open firmwares directly - SPARC firmwares, including
>> OpenBIOS don't support them.
On 1/27/19 21:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 8:20 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Although I don't have much of a preference for 32bit sparc userland, as
there is no kernel support for old SPARC gear, but anything substantial
on why not, Dennis?
My last information
On 1/27/19 20:11, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 1/27/19 2:08 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 1/27/19 19:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Although, oddly enough, I didn't see this issue on sparc64, so it
might be that I have just forgotten to add
On 1/27/19 19:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/27/19 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Although, oddly enough, I didn't see this issue on sparc64, so it
might be that I have just forgotten to add the package for powerpc
after it moved from release to ports.
That guess was
On 1/7/19 16:31, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/7/19 4:22 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I have done this now:
glaubitz@kyoto:~/grub-debian/test$ find /usr/lib/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/ -name
"*.img" -exec file {} \;
/usr/lib/grub/sparc64-ieee1275/diskboot.img: data
On 1/7/19 21:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Jan 7, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 1/7/19 16:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/7/19 4:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I tried to install GRUB using a ELF boot image:
root@debian:~/grub2# grub-install /dev
On 1/7/19 16:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/7/19 4:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I tried to install GRUB using a ELF boot image:
root@debian:~/grub2# grub-install /dev/vdiska
Installing for sparc64-ieee1275 platform.
grub-install: error: the size of
Hi Adrian,
On 1/6/19 21:43, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 1/6/19 21:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/6/19 9:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
If an ELF
version of GRUB can be provided by someone, I have a lot of sparc64
gear to test on - though not as many as OpenBSD supports ;-).
I do
On 1/6/19 21:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Switching list for GRUB on SPARC.
On 1/6/19 9:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I think I will work on GRUB on SPARC next to address the build issues there.
Before re-enabling COFF for GRUB, we could look into GRUB as ELF on sparc64,
because
On 08/07/2018 05:52 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 08/07/2018 05:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 08/07/2018 05:41 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I'm no expert in these matters, but as per e.g. [1] it looks like the target
"a.out-sunos-big" is not
Hi Adrian,
On 08/07/2018 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
In case anyone wonders, here's a list of top priority bugs on
sparc64 that need to be worked on:
[...]
grub2: FTBTS (no bug report yet)
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=grub2=sparc64=2.02%2Bdfsg1-5=1533001924=0
On 08/07/2018 02:56 AM, Fred wrote:
[...]
Out of frustration I changed the cdrom drive and the installation
proceeded with only one problem. The network has to be configured
manually but either the installer didn't provide this option or I missed
it.
It's there.
When you hit "Continue" in
On 08/07/2018 11:02 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Fred wrote:
[...] DVD drive [...]
Frank Scheiner wrote:
if a specific CDROM drive and
the assumed "compatible" driver don't work together, this results in a
situation like yours
Oh, sorry for my ignorance, as my Ultra 10 has a C
On 08/07/2018 09:45 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
On 08/06/2018 10:39 PM, Fred wrote:
On 08/06/2018 11:20 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> [...]
The CDROM drive in my Ultra 10 is attached to IDE channel #2 (the IDE
port farer away from the CPU) and configured as Master device.
And I ju
On 08/06/2018 10:39 PM, Fred wrote:
On 08/06/2018 11:20 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> [...]
The CDROM drive in my Ultra 10 is attached to IDE channel #2 (the IDE
port farer away from the CPU) and configured as Master device.
And I just now tested with the ISO in question (from 20180516
On 08/06/2018 07:34 PM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
Could you be also more specific about which instructions you followed to make
it work for you?
The specific problem I had was due to the sparc64 installation requiring
unstable repositories, which is apparently not very well supported in the
Debian
On 08/06/2018 05:01 PM, Fred wrote:
On 08/06/2018 02:18 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Dear Gregor,
[...]
Cheers,
Frank
Hi,
I am the original poster for this thread.
Yes I know, but up to the point, where I asked Gregor to provide more
details about the problems he experienced, you didn't
Dear Gregor,
On 08/06/2018 10:40 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote:
The latest net install image I have found is dated 18 May 2018. Is that the
latest version? Will that install on an Ultra 10 without problems?
I wasn't able to install with the netinst ISO on my Ultra 10 without problems,
Are you
On 07/28/2018 06:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 05/18/2018 10:15 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
BTW although this ISO ([1]) already has d-i/silo-installer removed, the
d-i/grub-installer on it does not yet include the patch you committed on May
15th. But
one can fix that during
Hi,
On 05/29/2018 04:34 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
and indeed , http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/ does not
have buster subdirectory.
Doesn't it work to continue and then choose "sid" as release?
Cheers,
Frank
Hi Rick, hi Tom,
On 05/17/2018 03:09 PM, Rick Leir wrote:
Tom, Frans
Yes, perhaps it is fixed. However there are not many eyes on this
problem, so maybe it's not fixed.
There was a suggestion that this driver would only fail during
installation, but would be fine if you had booted from some
On 05/19/2018 10:03 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 05/18/2018 10:16 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Ok, thank you.
Ok, after testing I can confirm that at least on my T5220 a separate partition
for `/boot` is not needed. I'll try to check what my oldest UltraSPARC machines
make out
On 05/19/2018 09:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
In the meantime I found a way to extract the initrd from the TILO image. But
trying an installation with it and the CDROM kernel (which I assume is
identical to
the kernel inside of the TILO image) showed some issues (missing Debian
On 05/16/2018 10:44 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
1. Can you test whether we can drop the /boot partition on Sun
partition tables?
I actually don't remember if I tested such a configuration. At least
d-i/grub-installer should support this now. I'll check that on my T5220 and
On 05/16/2018 08:53 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 05/16/2018 08:15 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Unfortunately booting the CDROM kernel and initrd via GRUB2 over the network
did not work as expected by me:
After the installer started it wants to load its components from the
non
On 05/16/2018 09:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Ok, I just successfully tested this change.
Two questions left:
1. Can you test whether we can drop the /boot partition on Sun
partition tables?
I actually don't remember if I tested such a configuration. At least
On 05/16/2018 07:11 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'll give it a try on my T5220 with kernel and initrd from the image you
provided today and report back.
Thanks. We should definitely test this before committing those changes.
Unfortunately booting the CDROM kernel and initrd via
On 05/16/2018 05:23 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
```
10 10 10 free
$iflabel{ gpt }
$reusemethod{ }
method{ biosgrub } .
```
Did you test whether this becomes a no-op one systems with Sun-label?
I don't remember, but I'd say no, because I wrote "[...] if the
On 05/16/2018 03:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Adding those recipes for partman-auto will resolve the issue.
Should we add additional recipes or better modify the existing sparc recipe?
However, we
should probably add a warning like we had for SILO which reminds users
they have to
Hi,
On 05/16/2018 01:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
I have been testing the installation of GRUB in debian-installer on disks
with GPT labels. Unfortunately, that doesn't work as grub-install
complains it cannot find the filesystem for /dev/vdiska1.
Looking at the partition table
On 05/14/2018 08:27 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
But as the GRUB2 part alone is already useful for people that are
familiar with the supporting service infrastructure, I just finished
up this part and put it into the Debian wiki. I will add more
information later if need be - I have to check the
On 05/14/2018 09:16 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
It may be worth testing an M3000 unit that has a Fujitsu SPARC-VII+
processor in it.
I have one :
$ psrinfo -pv
The physical processor has 8 virtual processors (0-7)
SPARC64-VII+ (portid 1024 impl 0x7 ver 0xa1 clock 2860 MHz)
>
So if the cpu
On 05/14/2018 08:37 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Looking at https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Network_booting it says :
"If you already have a working installation of Debian GNU/Linux
Sid for sparc64"
nope.
So this is chicken and egg here.
But I also later ([1]) wrote that you can
Hi all,
On 05/13/2018 07:21 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 05/13/2018 01:11 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sunday 2018-05-13 18:05, Dennis Clarke wrote:
Can you try the netboot image contained in this tarball [1]?
Hrmm .. new problem. I think that the firmware on ye older Sun Netra
type units
On 04/14/2018 08:53 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 04/14/2018 08:26 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+
(see [1]). The problem is that the Linux kernel doesn't work on any
Fujitsu SPARC64 gear currently, not even on newer M-class machines
Hi Adrian,
On 04/14/2018 08:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 04/14/2018 08:26 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+
(see [1]). The problem is that the Linux kernel doesn't work on any
Fujitsu SPARC64 gear currently
On 04/14/2018 06:11 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:>> FWIW, we also have
several machines with hypervisor support (sun4v).
I was thinking Oracle M-class gear and the late generation Fujitsu gear.
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+ (see
[1]). The problem is that
36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b5856a3..2c44fdf 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+grub-installer (1.154) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ [ Frank Scheiner ]
+ * Add support for GPT partitioned disks on sparc/s
ex c5d2208..0ea969f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+partman-auto (145) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ [ Frank Scheiner ]
+ * Add specific recipes for GPT partitioning on sparc/sparc64.
+
+ -- Frank Scheiner <frank.schei...@web.de> Mon, 05 Mar 201
On 03/02/2018 10:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Well, debian-installer normally does not allow you to choose the partition
table type.
I remember I had a problem - which must be due to that behaviour in
hindsight - when I used a GPT partitioned disk from an rx2620 in a
rp3440.
Hi Adrian,
On 02/27/2018 11:42 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/26/2018 05:55 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Thanks for the upload. The new version works like version
2.02-2+sparc64.3 for me.
Frank, if you like, you can help improving grub-installer for sparc64.
Sure! :-) I had a first
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