Hi Connoer,
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 10:59:47PM +0100, Connor McLaughlan wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> thank you for your time. This sounds a bit complicated for the newer
> versions.
>
> Currently i don't know where to start.
> I was trying to build the old firefox52 and thunderbird52 which run on
>
Hello Stan,
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:33:54AM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Having the above partitioning scheme seems to work ok with GRUB; the
> reason I asked about the "Whole disk" partition is that some
> partitioning tools (specifically fdisk, as I recall), refuse to create
> additional
Hi Stan,
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:34:59PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot
> partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for
> /dev/sda. As I recall, the partitioner warned that the number of
> cylinders on the disk
Hello Rich,
> > On 5/9/21 3:24 PM, Rich wrote:
> > > I tried just handing it vmlinux from
> > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-04-17/sparc64/debian-installer-images_20210415_sparc64.tar.gz
> > > over TFTP, but that just dies with "fast Data Access MMU Miss" before
Hi Riccardo,
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 01:43:29PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > Yep, in your kernel config set:
> > CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS=""
>
> thanks, that was it! Now the kernel build
great!
> Do I need to do somethings special?
>
> make install
> make modules_install
sorry, don't
Hi Riccardo,
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 01:16:11PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> > I took the config out of /boot/config of a good kernel, updated it with
> > "make oldconfig"
> >
> > During compilation I see:
> >
> > CC init/init_task.o
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> >
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 07:21:40PM +, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I may have mentioned in the past that I *always* use the expert mode
> text installer to get the job done. Mostly because I can walk away from
> the machine and run the bulk of the installation process remote over a
> ssh
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:45:16AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > At least with the stretch installer there is no problem with using a MBR
> > partitioning
> > on the am64 arch. You maybe can't select it, but if you generate a MBR
> > partitioning using
> > the shell inside the
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 01:09:40AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 03/02/2018 10:27 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> >> On x86, it will automatically use GPT if the machine is booted in EFI
> >> mode. ...
...
> >> I know you try to make the most compatible design to fit all use cases,
>
Hi Frans,
On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:19:20AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > Sounds like the sun partition table is not ok after installation -
> > what
> > does "fdisk /dev/sda" tell you ?
>
> ~ # fdisk /dev/sda
>
> Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.30.2).
> Changes will remain in memory
Hi Frans,
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 02:43:48PM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> Silo does not ask for a device, it just installs. Rebooting goes into a
Hmm - priority=low is set in the installer?
> disk errors and searching for the dhcp network device.
>
> Rebooting with command: boot
>
> Bad
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:29:27AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > What sector do i need to start? 2048 like x86/64?
> >
> > Do i understand, will there be enough room for md raid?
>
> Why not use GPT partition tables?
Also a DOS partition table is possible - depends on the space
Hi Frans,
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> And how people do a bootable device with mdraid, read /boot and
> / mirrored, with Sun table. ;-)
See here:
old:~# fdisk /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 27 heads, 107 sectors, 24620 cylinders
Units = sectors
Hi Frans,
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:59:19AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> What sector do i need to start? 2048 like x86/64?
If you need no bootloader, you just need the size of the partion table,
which might be 256 bytes only with a sparc partitioning table
- never read a spec about that.
Hello Frans,
On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 01:22:53PM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> I am creating raid partitions. First only sdd1, wanna add sdc1 later
> on. But creating sdd1 does serious wrong partition changes. Because it
> drops the partition tabel. And creates a new one.
>
>
Hey Adrian,
from the old, golden sparc days:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:59:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 09/06/2017 04:40 PM, Fedor Konstantinov wrote:
> > I would greatly appreciate if it could be possible to add to the installer
> > ability to
> > select mdadm metadata
Hello Chris,
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:00:25AM +, Chris wrote:
> I know Debian 7 is unsupported on Sparc and that bugs won't be fixed,
> but I don't care. Once the OS is installed and stable, I really don't
> need or expect support or patches. Apart from adding a few packages,
> nothing is
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 09:09:58AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> I don't think I can usefully help since I'm too far down the Debian
> management/development learning curve (and have rather a lot of other stuff
> on my plate), but could you give us a pointer to where the netinst image can
Me
Hello Mark,
On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:32:38AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> For the sake of anybody who does happen to have time, where are you getting
> your .iso image and what if any mirror are you selecting during
> installation?
if you can consider netbooting, maybe
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:46:32AM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> At the time, V880. But was prepared to try various other systems in the hope
> of finding something that would install.
Just checked - on V880 here a vanilla 3.12.6 is running. If you like
to get that as a deb, just ask.
> The
Hello,
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:07:10PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I was wondering how many here are still interested in the Debian
> SPARC port?
Interest is there, but unfortunately nearly no time during the next 6 Months.
> In the past weeks, I have invested some efforts to
Hello Mark,
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:32:41PM +, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
I've been spending time working on the SPARC64 emulation on QEMU and can
confirm that the latest QEMU 2.2 release is good enough boot, install
and run all of Debian squeeze/wheezy, NetBSD and OpenBSD in -nographic
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:44:31PM +0200, BERTRAND Jo??l wrote:
hmm well where will this info usually show up? in the system/kernel
logs? if it's not showing up then that means the freezes must be caused
by something other than ECC errors?
On console and system logs. Freezes can be
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:03:40AM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:41:09PM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
BUT : for several months, Linux/Sparc64 is unfortunately not stable anymore
(or completely broken). After 2.6.35 kernel, I can see random deadlock on
all my
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:19:36PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
no, this was a netboot install. I noticed some month ago that also netboot
images on other archs are broken - today a colleque told me on amd64 it's
now working again.
But the sparc wheezy boot.img for tftp booting is still from
in that netboot img.
Any ideas how to solve that ?
Thanks,
greetings
Hermann
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
Hello,
after working years (more or less) flawlessly, netboot
installation of sparc (here wheezy) fails on a V480 with a screen telling
not finding
Dear Shyam,
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 09:47:17PM +0530, shyam prasad wrote:
Im getting sun/cassini.bin firmware file missing error before the
installation even after loading some firmware files through USB stick which
...
Im using sun V890 server for installation.
If you are getting the V890
Hello,
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:19:37PM +0530, shyam prasad wrote:
*[0.00] Console: colour dummy device 80x25[0.00] console
[tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled*
maybe adding a cmdline option like console=ttyS0 may help -
if you are using a serial connecting.
Greetings
Hello,
after working years (more or less) flawlessly, netboot
installation of sparc (here wheezy) fails on a V480 with a screen telling
not finding any kernel modules. Continuing without modules
did not find any disk drivers. In the log of the installation is
one warnig about this - see below.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:01:27PM +0200, Moritz M?hlenhoff wrote:
For the debian sparc list: Hoping that wheezy will get a 2.6.38 kernel.
A 2.6.38 based kernel image is already available in wheezy/testing
Please test it and report, if it also works.
Refiled this at
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:20:21PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
Just found the initcall_debug=1 ignore_loglevel suggested by davem
during the last debugging session with this machine.
Tail of the output is below for completeness, thought I feel
I should try the latest stable vanilla kernel
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:01:17PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
Dropping unrelated recipients, adding debian-sparc for collective
knowledge.
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 05:17:09PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
[..]
Unfortunately squeeze provided kernels are not booting on V880/V480
systems
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:36:29PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 03:14:36PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
Dear all,
tried today the squeeze alpha1 netboot installer and the daily
http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img
(with is from
Dear all,
tried today the squeeze alpha1 netboot installer and the daily
http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/netboot/boot.img
(with is from 12.07.2010 btw., seems not to be updated anymore).
Both hang in exec /bin/busybox init.
Deleting the known disfunctional cassini driver from
Hopefully debian kernel people will pick up a 2.6.32 kernel to
unstable and testing in the near future.
As you can see from http://packages.debian.org/linux-image-2.6.32
it's already there :)
Great!
Tried it on a SunFire 880, hangs at boot (see below). Will try a vanilla
kernel when time
Dear all,
because I want to summarize anyway and was just asked via personal email:
vanilla kernel 2.6.32 compiled with gcc 4.3.2 (lenny) is booting and running
on a SunFire 480R.
Console on the rsc (not garbled anymore thanks to removal of the broken
prom console stuff) works, the machine shows
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:40:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
OK. Yours has gcc 4.2.4, and our ones have gcc 4.3.2 (that we shipped
as stable :)
I also just tried a newer packaged image, and it has the same issue.
I just tossed lenny onto my main build system and I will try to
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:33:46PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
Do we have any recorded success reports for V480 at all? It's missing from
Yes, here debian lenny is running with the 2.6.26 kernel almost fine.
Installation is most probably not working, this machine got a cloned
etch harddrive from
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:24:46PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
As promised long ago, here is a 2.6.31.6 kernel built with you
2.6.31 config file. Let me know if it exhibits the bootup problem
so we can diagnose further:
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/josip_test_2631_6.img
Tested on my
Please let me know what additional information I should provide,
although my ability to perform captures of screen output during boot may
be limited as the boot messages become garbled and strewn randomly
across my screen from the point of console handover: boot [earlyprom0]
- real [tty0]. If
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:31:10AM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
I looked at the tcpd sources and saw some debug options,
but did not found the time to try something yet.
slapd's libwrap0 is also still failing
substring matching in domain names (e.g .iwr.uni-heidelberg.de),
which I reported
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:58:10AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Jun 19, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote:
Which is what I expect. I'm not shur if dig is the best tool
here, which should I use ?
printf? A debugger?
Are there any news about this bug? I cannot reproduce it on my system
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:32:02PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
partitioning disk with sun labels seems to be broken in lenny,
after a reboot the new partions are not visible. util-linux fdisk is
also unhappy with the disk label, see attached output below.
Only the last output of cat /proc
Hello,
partitioning disk with sun labels seems to be broken in lenny,
after a reboot the new partions are not visible. util-linux fdisk is
also unhappy with the disk label, see attached output below.
Only the last output of cat /proc/partions is after reboot,
the other three are after the
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:00:10PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
[ 47.553935] calling of_bus_driver_init+0x0/0x12c
[ 47.610180] Setting up of bus
[ 47.645596] In bus_register().
[ 47.682056] Doing kobject_set_name()
[ 47.724764] kset_register()
I suspect it's hanging in uevent
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:35:53AM -0500, Blake Self wrote:
I know about the drivers (especially the qla2xxx), I'm just looking for an
installer that works. I have tried the weekly and daily builds of the
installer with no luck. I will look into etchnhalf and see what it does for
me. Is
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:38:48AM -0500, Blake Self wrote:
Hello,
Were you ever able to get Debian to install on the SunFire V880? I am
having a heck of a time with it and any information that you may have would
be very useful to me.
Yes, debian etchnhalf runs on such a machine. You can
Hello all,
I'm trying to get more information about the kernel on ultrasparc
(see my last post for a installation problem on a SunFire V480)
and can't reach www.ultralinux.org (since month's).
Is that site dead ? Any mirror or newer place of information ?
A traceroute part is appended.
Thanks
Hello,
tried to install debian etchnhalf/lenny on a ultrasparc III
multiprocessor Machine.
Machine hangs after exec busybox init when started with BOOT_DEBUG=3.
A bug report with dmesg output is filed under:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495216
Does anyone have an idea how to
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:15:39AM -0400, Eric Nichols wrote:
You probably can also use dhcp boot with:
{0} ok boot net:dhcp
On the dhcp server set the bootfile and server parameters to the tftp server
containing the flash-update image.
Worked like a charm here for a Sun
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