Debian 2.1 on sparc clone (compstation ii)
is there an easy way to make a disk bootable on sun hardware? i took a 4g
scsi disk that was not in use and dropped it in my sun
box here at work. after installing debian, i couldn't boot. i thought
that since i went through fdisk and deleted/re-created the partitions,
that everything would work.
however, i guess there is some specific partition/formatting that
must be written to the drive. as this drive was previosly in a PC,
i figured it was missing that information. i searched for docs to
find a way make this disk useable on the sun. after finding nothing
that would help, i started installing solaris 7 as i remember it did
some type of "init" to the drive. i bailed out of the install after format
and re-installed slink. at that point everything was happy.
is there a way (out of bios maybe) to init a new drive? i can't imagine
that you would have to start installing solaris just to get a drive "ready"
to install linux.
is this already documented and i just missed it?
thanks,
- wayne
--- demsg - cut here ---
PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
ARCH: SUN4M
TYPE: micro COMPstation II
Ethernet address: 0:80:3f:f5:a:75
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
IOMMU: impl 0 vers 4 page table at f0280000 of size 262144 bytes
sbus0: Clock 21.1250 MHz
dma0: Revision 2
dma1: Revision 2
cgsix0 at 0x50000000 TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b
Console: 16 point font, 864 scans
Console: colour SUN 128x54, 1 virtual console (max 63)
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 84.79 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62372k available (1072k kernel code, 1780k data) [f0000000,f4000000]
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Linux version 2.0.35 (root@dianne) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Wed Feb 17
20:37:03 CET 1999
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.18.2.15
tty00 at 0xffeeb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xffeeb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty02 at 0xffee4004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
tty03 at 0xffee4000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530
Sun TYPE 4 keyboard detected without keyclick
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clock 40 MHz CCF=8 Time-Out 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
detected
esp0: FAST chip is fas100a (family=0, version=2)
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230N Rev: 0298
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3501TA Rev: 3384
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8386733 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB]
sunlance.c:v1.9 21/Aug/96 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
eth0: LANCE 00:80:3f:f5:0a:75
eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k code, 4k data
Adding Swap: 65372k swap-space (priority -1)
sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud.
esp0: Disabling sync for buggy Toshiba CDROM.
esp0: Disabling DISCONNECT for target 6 lun 0
esp0: target 6 asynchronous
--- dmesg - cut here ---
Reply to: