Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)
Hi,
thanks to the quick help from this list I managed to get my IPC
working by now. Even the booting problem is resolved.
For the (improbable) case that someone else experiences similar
problems I'll give a short summary:
As I remembered seeing the IPC trying to boot from sd(0,0,0) when the
internal disk was defect I installed the new disk with SCSI-ID 0. I
was able to boot from disk and install everything but OpenBoot firmly
rejected to see the disk at boot time. In the end I rejumpered it to
ID 1 and by now I can boot from hard disk... Was this my stupidity or
is this normal??
Ah - this reminds me - the explanation of "hiding" the online help for
the fdisk `s' command seems completely besides the point to me. Why
shouldn't we then hide the man-page for `rm' or other potential
dangerous things?? Is the consensus of this list that this is ok or
should I file a bug report against fdisk?
Ok, I have two remaining problems:
The 2.0.34 kernel initialized the text mode correctly as opposed to
the 2.2.13 kernel. The difference can be seen in the log messages:
2.0.34 kernel:
Dec 9 22:37:23 poc kernel: Console: 16 point font, 864 scans
Dec 9 22:37:23 poc kernel: Console: mono SUN 128x54, 1 virtual console (max 63)
2.2.13 kernel:
Dec 14 12:55:12 poc kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
How can I get the new kernel to do the same initialization? The
difference for me is that I cannot see the leftmost 4 characters on
each line... (and the Sun btw supports no color)
The other problem is to get X running - As the IPC uses the BWtwo
framebuffer I thought I could fix it by applying the patch from the
Ultralinux FAQ to the kernel but the patch is already in there. So
I'll better show how X fails:
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
I have the xfonts-pex package installed which owns a file
`/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX/Roman_M.phont'. Unfortunately I cannot
strace the X server as strace dies like this:
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/etc/X11/Xserver", O_RDONLY) = 3
syscall: unknown syscall trap 9c23a018 e0002cc0
Although this is probably a debian-user question I dare to ask
here....
Thanks for any help
Detlev
P.S: Please CC me as I am not subscribed to debian-sparc
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