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tinchox n00b
Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject: sparc v210 |
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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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jeanluca Apprentice
Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 179
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure that your sun fire V210 is supported ?? You cannot install GenToo on all sparc machines (mostly not the newer ones)
Luca |
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alex-b n00b
Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 37
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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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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squash Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 79
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:35 am Post subject: |
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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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chuckpl n00b
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 16
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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chuckpl n00b
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 16
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:08 am Post subject: |
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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...
Regards |
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RampeStamp n00b
Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:51 am Post subject: Little problems |
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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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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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kyphros n00b
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 10
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:23 am Post subject: |
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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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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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kyphros n00b
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 10
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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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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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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