[Solved] Also Having Trouble Installing on an Ultra 5

w.hill · Last edited by w.hill on Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:52 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

This is my second effort installing Gentoo. The previous was on a Sun Blade 100.

Using the minimal CD 2005.0. I've installed a basic system. When I reboot the box for the first time I get a kernel panic. I selected sparc-sources and have compiled and installed 2.4.30-sparcsources.

The panic happens thus:
NET4: Unix domain sockets
VFS: Mounted root (ext 2 filesystem readonly)
Unable to handle kernel paging request in mma handler <1> at virtual address.

Followed by the kernel panic.

I also tried vanilla-sources 2.6.7.
Which results in Remapping the Kernel... Fast Instruction Acces MMU Miss.

In desperation I copied the 2.4.29 kernel off the installation CD.

It gets as far as:
Uniform CD-ROM driver version 3.12
TRAPLOG...

The Ultra 5 is running OpenBoot 3.25

The Ultra 5 boot and runs fine from the Installation CD.

Any Suggestions?

TIA

oldan

w.hill · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

I was beginning to get worried about not receiving a reply

I re-ran make-menuconfig on the 2.4 kernel.

I added the following two items which were not selected at all.

x x[*] CMD640 chipset bugfix/support x x
x x[*] CMD640 enhanced support x x

Interestingly the chipset was already selected for compiling into the kernel.

x x<*> CMD64{3|6|8|9} chipset support x x

You hint about the CMD revealed other people having the same problem. I haven't had to compile in SCSI boot device support before and the IDE in the Sun Blade is much better behaved so I hadn't previously struck such a problem.

I'll recompile the kernel and see what happens. The only problem is that the computer doesn't reboot I'll be locked out until Monday.

The computer's at work & I'm at home.

I'll post the results.

w.hill · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:57 am Post subject:

Looks like I'm locked out.

Bring on Monday:evil:

EDIT ::

Well that solved the problem. However when the SPARC rebooted the networking didn't enable. The section in the installation manual isn't quite right as the configuration for networking has changed since but not been incorporated.

The keymapping was wrong too but I fixed that once I worked out what was required.

"Number 5 Is Alive"

oldan · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: