Re: Blade 100 Etch doesn't boot

2007-09-21 Thread Uwe A. P. Würdinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe A. P. Würdinger schrieb: > Hi List, > > I wanted to reinstall my Blade 100 today after I replaced the > harddisk that died on my 2 days ago [-snip-] > > Only think left to try is the kernel from backports.org Well to answer my own question it wor

E3500 install problems

2007-09-21 Thread Dennis Boone
I'm trying to install on an E3500 via serial console. The disks are internal FC. The machine has a Creator3D board I'm currently ignoring. I downloaded the install media on September 7 from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/ I've gotten past the inab

Re: E3500 install problems

2007-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Dennis Boone wrote: > I'm trying to install on an E3500 via serial console. The disks are > internal FC. The machine has a Creator3D board I'm currently ignoring. Just use the netboot installer. Settign up a tftpd + dhcp is done in a few minutes if you don't have them around allready. > Overall

Re: E3500 install problems

2007-09-21 Thread Dennis Boone
> Just use the netboot installer. Settign up a tftpd + dhcp is done in a > few minutes if you don't have them around allready. I just tried that, but the netboot image also seems to lack the SOCAL+ driver. I've actually built my own kernel and netbooted it too, but I'm having trouble getting al

Re: E3500 install problems

2007-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Dennis Boone wrote: > > Just use the netboot installer. Settign up a tftpd + dhcp is done in a > > few minutes if you don't have them around allready. > > I just tried that, but the netboot image also seems to lack the SOCAL+ > driver. I've actually built my own kernel and netbooted it too, but

Re: E3500 install problems

2007-09-21 Thread Dennis Boone
> (Without really looking into the udebs:) The socal module should be > included in the installer. But according to the help to the module in > the kernel config you'll probably need the microcode from the Solaris > driver to make it work. YOu probably want to open a shell and try to > modprob

linux-kernel-di-sparc: Please include sun FC modules

2007-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 Version: 1.23 Severity: wishlist Dennis, this mail will open a bug report against the installer's kernel package, asking for inclusion of the module. Dennis Boone wrote: > > ~ # modprobe socal > FATAL: Module socal not found. > > Modprobe can't find

Re: E3500 install problems

2007-09-21 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > ~ # modprobe socal > FATAL: Module socal not found. > > Modprobe can't find it to load it. Nothing in dmesg. Nothing in > /lib/modules *soc*. It's just not included in the lenny installers. > Which seems silly. Which is why I'm being a pita. :) here comes my workaround for such