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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:43 pm    Post subject: sparc v210 Reply with quote

Hi guys,

i'm trying to install Gentoo on a Sun Fire V210 but i'm having some problems.

The boot process hangs on and the last message is: "booting".

I have tryed with Debian but it hags on in "Remapping the kernel... "

I think maby there is something i'm missing in the "boot:" prompt.

Any help will be apreciate.

Thanx.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you sure that your sun fire V210 is supported ?? You cannot install GenToo on all sparc machines (mostly not the newer ones)

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a SunFire V210 near me compiling gentoo right now. Which ISO did you try to boot?
I am using the sparc64 2005.1 one.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure your SunFire is running the latest OBP. OBP 4.17.1,POST 4.17.1,OBDIAG 4.17.1 seems to be the latest. I had similar issues with a V240.

Second, there are known issues with the US3i and Linux. It uses a NUMA-style memory system, but it isn't properly supported under linux. You have a bank of memory slots next to each CPU, move all your sticks to the first one. I can't get 2.6 to make it to userland, but I've had reasonable success with 2.4. THere is an occasional lockup that you can hit, thought to be caused by a US3i errata. see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=112671553024553&w=2 for more.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject: =] Reply with quote

Booting from CD is quite hard try :]

The matter is that u can boot your machine from tftpboot image :) I got same problems with V240 (gentoo, debian and more)
Set up tftp server and dhcp and boot your V210 with: "boot net:dhcp"

Check this out for images...
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/experimental/sparc/tftpboot/sparc64/

Hope it helpzz
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For the newer machines (mostly UltraSPARC IIIi-based) like the V210, V240 and Blade 1500 there's a couple of tricks.
First of all if the livecd (must be 2005.0 or newer) won't boot you'll have to upgrade to the latest OBP.
Then to be able to boot off disk you'll have to use an old SILO, the trick is quite simple actually, once silo is emerged copy all the *.b files from the LiveCD /boot to your hard disk /boot and run silo -f.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To go into details... I'm using SILO 1.3.1 but my OBP is quite old cose its 4.11 and works good.

I sucessfully ran 2.4.31 and 2.6.13 kernel...
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:51 am    Post subject: Little problems Reply with quote

I am trying Gentoo on a V210 also. Got kernel 2.4 running (with an old Silo-1.3), but then I came into memory troubles, because I needed a few things in the kernel itself. I will try to strip the kernel, hope it reaches 3.5 Meg.

But I cannot get kernel 2.6 running. It stalls after mounting the root read-only. I heard that a few others have the same problem, but I cannot find the answer to solve this. I really prefer kernel 2.6 over 2.4, does anyone know howto solve this ?!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We are currently running 2.6.15 on a v240 (which is basically the same as a v210) with silo 1.4.10.
Note that if you take the silo 1.4.10 approach 2.4 kernels aren't able to boot for some odd reason, so keep a livecd or netboot image handy.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gust4voz wrote:
We are currently running 2.6.15 on a v240 (which is basically the same as a v210) with silo 1.4.10.
Note that if you take the silo 1.4.10 approach 2.4 kernels aren't able to boot for some odd reason, so keep a livecd or netboot image handy.


How well is that working? I'm building a SMP v210, and wouldn't mind giving a recent 2.6 kernel a try.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quite good actually, though with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 since it's got some picky patch fixes in (strace/ptrace, atyfb on blade 100/150, fstat64).
vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1 will do fine too, i need g-s because of squashfs support to build release material.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just an update. I have 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 working almost perfectly on a pair of V210s. If I turn on SMP, they hang at boot, without SMP they work perfectly. Well, except for the soft lockup if I don't have anything attached to the IDE controller, but all it does is add a few extra seconds to boot, which they don't boot much :)

Just in case anyone else wants to try a 2.6 kernel on one of these, I'm running:

gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1
silo-1.4.10
udev-079-r1
glibc-2.3.5-r3
gcc-3.4.5
binutils-2.16.1

It's running Snort, and snort-2.4.3 works great (watching ~200MB/s no problem).
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you're SMP try placing all of the memory on one of the processors instead of split like it usually is.
There still seems to be some problems regarding memory and/or cache controller coherency issues for UltraSPARC-IIIi machines and that usually fixes it somewhat.
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