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blasterboy
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 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject: At my wits ends installing gentoo on V100 [SOLVED] |
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Hello there all,
After 4 days of trying, I am at my wits end installing Gentoo on a SunFire V100. Using the SParc-Linux 64 Universal Iso edition (2004.3). I am using the console port to install it.
Sun Fire V100 (UltraSPARC-IIe 548MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 1792 MB memory installed.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:2b:2e:fc, Host ID: 832b2efc.
I'm using a (md5sum verified iso) cd-rom to boot from, install to /dev/hdc (40 GB WD drive). This is the second cdrom I burned, just to be sure it was not a faulty cdrom disk.
Booting from the cd works 4 out 5 times, at other times it hangs with 'Attempting to mount cdrom'
I get a shell prompt, can fdisk the disk into different partitions :
| Code: | /dev/hdc1 -> / (1024 MB)
/dev/hdc2 -> swap (1024 MB)
/dev/hdc3 -> Sun Whole Disk
/dev/hdc4 -> /home (20 GB)
/dev/hdc5 -> /usr (12 GB)
/dev/hdc6 -> /var (rest, about 5.5GB)
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I can also put ext3 on them.
I can then mount those partitions, but whenever I do
| Code: | | tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-...-.tar.bz2 |
it starts to unzip to /mnt/gentoo (passes /etc /var) and gets stuck at the extraction part (usually somewhere in /var)
I have checked that I did not partition wrongly (too small) redid it several times, all ok.
Also tried replacing with an identical 40 GB disk -> I have the same problem.
Does anybody have an idea that I can try ? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Al
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blasterboy
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| Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: ok, think I found it |
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After searching for days, finally putting this post, I just did one more search in the forums, and lo and behold, I seem to have another post describing a solution :
Apparently the V100 is broken in booting linux, we must use ide=nodma when booting the kernel.
Thus :
| Code: | boot: gentoo-2.4 ide=nodma
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does the trick.
Thanks to Sparc Monkey for supplying the solution !!
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