Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, [del] >You missed the important part: Manual kernel installation is no longer >necessary, it's just silo that is missing now besides the partman bug. [del] And I can confirm that the automatic kernel selection works for single CPU boxes like a SUN Ultra 60: Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >You missed the important part: Manual kernel installation is no longer >necessary, it's just silo that is missing now besides the partman bug. Yeah, it was late yestderday... The only reason why I did the install was to verify this... And then I didn't confirm it... Shame on me. >I

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, [del] >The updated base-installer package is now on the FTP servers. Could >someone perform another test installation and verify that the kernel >is now installed properly without any manual work. Yes, installed with preseeding and... >The partman-ext3 problem still needs to be worked

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/13/2016 10:10 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > (...) > Sorry for the late reply, You missed the important part: Manual kernel installation is no longer necessary, it's just silo that is missing now besides the partman bug. I actually helped Rod to reinstall raverin (one of the buildds) with

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/10/2016 02:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Ok, patches have been merged now [1, 2]. We just need to wait for the > d-i team to release a new version of the base-installer package which > will include my changes. Then we should retry the netinst image which > shouldn't need to be

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/10/2016 02:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Ok, patches have been merged now [1, 2]. Forgot the links: > [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/commit/?id=c60ef0bb9ce9decb1a7d22cb2ea330d2df782547 > [2]

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/04/2016 10:30 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 01/04/2016 10:39 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> Yupp, with usual workarounds (preseeding, editing partman, manual module >> selections, manual kernel and silo install) I was able to use the image >> for an install (I used the older

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/05/2016 09:52 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Basically the same way, but I stopped the silo install early, edited > /etc/silo.conf to: > > root=/dev/sdb1 > partition=1 > timeout=100 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp > label=Linux >

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >Fixing the kernel and silo installation issue is up next. Currently >discussing with the d-i people in #debian-boot. I hope they're going >to merge my sparc64 patches for base-installer soon. > >Btw, how did you install silo manually? I did that today with: > >chroot /target >apt-get install

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/04/2016 10:39 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Yupp, with usual workarounds (preseeding, editing partman, manual module > selections, manual kernel and silo install) I was able to use the image > for an install (I used the older image, the CD was still in the drive): Fixing the kernel and silo

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >Problem has been resolved now and systemd is up-to-date again on >sparc64. You will soon be able to use the installer images again >once the mirrors have made their next dinstall run (is run every >6 hours, 0:00 UTC, 6:00 UTC, 12:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC). > >Let me know once you have tested the

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/02/2016 07:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Jan 2 18:15:07 debootstrap: dpkg: regarding .../ifupdown_0.8.5_sparc64.deb >> containing ifupdown: >> Jan 2 18:15:07 debootstrap: ifupdown breaks systemd (<< 228-3~) >> Jan 2 18:15:07 debootstrap: systemd (version 228-2) is present

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/02/2016 07:50 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Booted up OK (with preseeding as usually), but still lacks the change for > the partitioner. Are these changes part of the packages which are retrieved > over the net? I'm not sure. I was actually sure that debian-installer would use the version of

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/02/2016 08:20 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Yeah, right, now the build of systemd has failed with the infamous segfault > of xsltproc which I wanted to debug on the system where the install has > failed... Yeah, this should really be fixed. I'll check whether I can hack a work around as this

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >Well, the error message is pretty clear. ifupdown wants system 228-3 >or newer while sparc64 has still 228-2 which is a result of the >systemd package not being built on sparc64 yet (it's still building, >see [1]). Yeah, right, now the build of systemd has failed with the infamous segfault

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >On 01/01/2016 11:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Almost done. It seems I simply did not built the new base-installer and >> partman-ext3 packages. Will be right back with a new image. > >Ok, updated: > >https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/02/2016 08:11 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Yeah, this should really be fixed. I'll check whether I can hack a work > around as this issue is starting to annoy me. I just made a binNMU for docbook-xsl with the proposed patch from #765567 [1] which should alleviate this issue. I

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/02/2016 10:06 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809685 Oh, I forgot to mention, please always add: User: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Usertags: sparc64 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Just did that manually using the bts command.

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/30/2015 04:36 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: >> where do i report lvm "bus error" currently ? Just checked with my >> installed sparc64 debian, adding lvm2 package, even simple commands >> give

systemd again (was: Re: New working sparc64 netinst image)

Hi, >> I still can't stand systemd, can we please have back sysvinit as default? > >I hope you are kidding. But in case you are not, the answer is no since >this isn't a simple matter of changing defaults and there is a shitton >of reverse dependencies that systemd has. Also, sysvinit is old and

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >On 01/01/2016 08:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Oh, nice. I can certainly just change this in d-i as well. > >Updated NETINST ISO containing both changes: > >> >https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso Tried on my Ultra-2, boots OK, but both

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 11:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Almost done. It seems I simply did not built the new base-installer and > partman-ext3 packages. Will be right back with a new image. Ok, updated: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso --

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 10:35 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Partitioning is OK, but creating an ext4 filesystems still gets no further > than 33%. Looks unchanged to me - from the outside. Did you check whether the change that Kieron was talking about: > Modified /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3 > and

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 11:48 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > No harm done, though, installed the rest by hand for now and got a booting > system with kernel 4.3.3. That's more than I could say last year ;-) Almost done. It seems I simply did not built the new base-installer and partman-ext3 packages. Will be

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >On 01/01/2016 10:35 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> Partitioning is OK, but creating an ext4 filesystems still gets no further >> than 33%. Looks unchanged to me - from the outside. > >Did you check whether the change that Kieron was talking about: > >> Modified

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Any chance that we are about ready to write some instructions on how other can setup there own instance of SPARC64 yet? Feeling like my instructions right now would require a bit too much hacking at this point but maybe with the next release of the install iso? On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:55 PM,

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/02/2016 12:08 AM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: > Any chance that we are about ready to write some instructions on how > other can setup there own instance of SPARC64 yet? Actually, once we have resolved these two issues, it should be almost straight-forward to install sparc64. You just need to

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 10:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > was actually in? I might have just made a mistake while creating the > new image and forgot to include the updated installer packages. Working on a new image, just a second. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 08:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Oh, nice. I can certainly just change this in d-i as well. Updated NETINST ISO containing both changes: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' :

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 03:13 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > - the installer went ahead downloading, but failed to find a kernel for > installation. Manually installing it in the target via chroot works. Can I get the exact error message, preferably from the log files under /var/log? My suspicion is that

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, and happy new year to all :-) >I've updated the NETINST image [1] now: > >- made some silo improvements for d-i [2] >- disabled GPG verification for the archive in the code I've attempted an install on an Ultra-2 today, auto detection of network hardware and disks failing, but manually

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 07:45 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Jan 1 18:15:11 base-installer: error: Unable to execute > /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/60partman-zfs > Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour > Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >Can I get the exact error message, preferably from the log files under >/var/log? My suspicion is that debian-installer tries to install the >wrong kernel version and therefore fails. > >Apparently, being able to install the proper kernel version is a bit >tricky and according to Helge

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

So I was able to get past the 33% error on the partition by setting the -F flag for mkfs.ext4 in the debian install scripts. Guidance to the issue was found here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767682 Modified /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3 and changed the line

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 08:08 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: > Guidance to the issue was found here > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767682 > > Modified /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3 > > and changed the line > > mkfs.$filesystem $device $usage >/dev/null; then > > to > >

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, >On 01/01/2016 07:45 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> Jan 1 18:15:11 base-installer: error: Unable to execute >> /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/60partman-zfs >> Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour >> Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Was wondering if there is any way to install the SILO bootloader with this installed? I was pretty much able to get everything installed, with all the work arounds listed here, except for SILO which appears to no longer be available in the repros. On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Ulrich Teichert

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 08:32 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: > Was wondering if there is any way to install the SILO bootloader with > this installed? I was pretty much able to get everything installed, with > all the work arounds listed here, except for SILO which appears to no > longer be available in the

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 01/01/2016 08:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Try adding it to the preseed file. Like this one: http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~glaubitz/preseed-sparc64.cfg -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin -

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hi, sorry for the late update, I had a *long* shopping list to run after yesterday to avoid shopping today :-) >I've updated the NETINST image [1] now: > >- made some silo improvements for d-i [2] >- disabled GPG verification for the archive in the code Doesn't seem to work, the installer still

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/31/2015 01:55 PM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Doesn't seem to work, the installer still refuses to take debian-ports > as a package source: > (...) Alright, thanks for the feedback. I will do some more debugging next week when I am back in the office and have access to a SPARC machine. >

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/30/2015 04:36 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > first, i had problems with formatting as well, but reused / copied > disk from oracle sparc linux with gpt disk partition table > (description of this problem in my previous email). This is a potential bug in debian-installer which always asssumes

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Oh for the record,.. prtconf,alas, frequently ignores stuff that could be reported in ascii supported-labels: 67707400.73756e00.6d627200 => gpt sun mbr > gpt_avail=iutil.execWithCapture("prtconf", ["-v", "-p"]) > if ( gpt_avail.find("gpt") != -1 ): >

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

Hello! I've updated the NETINST image [1] now: - made some silo improvements for d-i [2] - disabled GPG verification for the archive in the code Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > [2]

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 30/12/15 15:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/30/2015 04:36 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: >> first, i had problems with formatting as well, but reused / copied >> disk from oracle sparc linux with gpt disk partition table >> (description of this problem in my previous email). > This is

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/30/2015 03:29 AM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > 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

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 30 December 2015 at 10:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/30/2015 03:29 AM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:39 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > >> On 12/29/2015 01:31 PM, John Paul Adrian

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 12/30/2015 01:18 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: > Which seems to work fine, until I get to the formatting part, where it > seems to hang at 33%. This is in an LDOM on a T5140, tried changing from > zvol to file, also tried ext2 and ext3 instead of ext4. Same result > every time. Switch to a

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On 30 December 2015 at 13:28, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/30/2015 01:18 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: > > Which seems to work fine, until I get to the formatting part, where it > > seems to hang at 33%. This is in an LDOM on a T5140, tried changing

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: > On 30 December 2015 at 13:28, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: >> >> On 12/30/2015 01:18 PM, Knut Petter Ølberg wrote: >> > Which seems to work fine, until I get to the formatting

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:19 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/30/2015 03:29 AM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:39 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> wrote: >>> On 12/29/2015 01:31 PM, John Paul Adrian

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: 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: 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

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. Boots on a V240: ... Rebooting with command: boot cdrom

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

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: 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: 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: 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: >