On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 03:57, Blars Blarson wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > The first two tries to use DHCP failed, changing cable/switch port > each time. The third time worked. The switch indicated the > connection was at 10Mbps. This could be a problem for others, if it > isn't due to flakey hardware. After reboot the system went to 100Mbps > full duplex. I've had a quite a bit of this problem, and I'm not sure how to work around it. Mostly I see it in that my Sparc won't sync to the network even for rarp and can take up to an hour to find it. Usually at bootup time, I see it struggling, and then I see a message that says that the kernel is forcing it to 10/half and it just picks up and goes. I don't really know where to begin approaching that problem. > Loading sr_mod failed. This needs to be fixed so we can do > non-network installs. The busybox modprobe is broken on sparc64, and > I've also had problems with the one in the udeb, so this isn't a new > problem. I think sr_mod is built into the kernel. Also, the miniiso is only intended to be a netboot kernel, so might not have those drivers (and I thought shouldn't have that menu option). Do you mind taking a look at that? > The first reboot failed, however power cyclining the system got me > through the second-stage installer. Errors about respawning were > received. What type of failure? > After the second stage installer, it left my system unusable. > It failed to enable a getty for my serial console. > Booting "linux init=/bin/sh" allowed me to edit /etc/inittab to > disable the useless console gettys and enable the serial port getty. No idea about these. =) I don't know how d-i sets up for serial-only machines. I doubt this is sparc-specific, though. I'll probably hit this one when I start porting to Arm next week. Thank-you so much! Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I never know what to expect when you respond to my postings. No insult intended, you are merely a surprise :) - Carlos O'Donnell
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