Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R
Hi,
I've tried to install Debian 3 in a SunFire 280R Utra Sparc-III
with no success. I wonder if anybody can give me a hint?
First problem occurred after the boot sequence started
(prior to any installation), the process was interrupted
complaining the absence of sparc64.gz.
We tried /boot/sparc64 at lilo prompt to work around the problem.
Then, the boot sequence dies right after "SCSI subsystem Revision 1.0"
with message:
"Error(0): Cheetah Error Trap...
Highest Priority Error: Bus error response from system bus
...Panic Irreciverable deferred error trap."
Other boot options (different than default) died with:
"clock_probe: problem, cannot find bus to search"
I have tracked down that message to arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c
in function void __init clock_probe(void) . There, variable
busnd is set to flag value -1 that indicates no bus found.
Are there any success stories of debian-sparc instalation in the same hw ?
Is there any story of simmilar failure in this or any other platform ?
I gathered some extra info about SunFire 280R that might help judging
compatibility:
- I/O 40 Mbs Ultra SCSI (SCSI-3 synchronous)
- Internal SCSI Fast/Narrow (with DVD support)
- cpu clock 900 Mhz
- 4 PCI buses 3 with 33MHz & 1 with (33|66) MHz
- archtecture Superscalar Sparc v9
- MMU with 64 I-TLB entries & 64 D-TLB entries
- cache: 64 Kb (data) 32 Kb (instruction)
Running probe SCSI at OpenBoot prompt gave me:
LiD HA LUN PortWWW Disk Desc.
0 0 0 21000004cf7f1021 Seagate ST336605FSUN366
1 1 0 21000004cf7f1149 "
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also to my personal address <rodsenra@gpr.com.br>.
TIA
regards,
Senra
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Rodrigo Senra
MSc Computer Engineer (GPr Sistemas Ltda) rodsenra@gpr.com.br
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~921234 (LinUxer 217.243) (ICQ 114477550)
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