Re: debian install on 5/170 turbosparc problems

[Eric Brower <ebrower@usa.net>]

In short, support for TurboSPARC (SS5/170) in Linux is dodgy at best. 
You can find ample messages to this effect searching the list archives 
and those of the sparclinux@vger list, as well at the FAQ at 
www.ultralinux.org.

Good luck!
E

Ross Camm wrote:
> these are the boot up messages....just to confirm we are talking about
> the same sparc....excuse any error, copied by hand.
>
> we also get a fujitsu logo in the near the top left corner.
>
> 512kb secondary cache present
> ioclk setting = cpuclk/2
> sbusclk setting = cpuclk/8
> running in turbosparc native mode
>
> sparcstation 5 keyboard present
> rom rev 2.15, 128mb memory installed
> ehternet address blah blah blah
>
> putting patch to put cpu in usii mode
> snoop and ic-snoop turned on
>
>
> does this match anything that someone has managed to get running ??
>
> rossco
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:42, Ross Camm wrote:
>
> > i have tried the tftpboot image you mention.
> >
> > i get this message when i boot via cdrom, which results in the same
> > error message as the tftpboot.img above ( at work at the moment and dont
> > have a rarp kernel to set rarp up from )  
> >
> > boot:
> > Uncompressing image...
> > Loading initial ramdisk....
> > PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1
> >
> > Watchdog Reset.
> >
> > the ram dimm modules are in u300 to u303, and have tried swapping
> > modules around and only using 1 dimm module.
> >
> > have tried mem=128m.
> >
> > got m e stumped.
> >
> > rossco
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:26, David A. Riggs wrote:
> >
> > > Ross Camm wrote:
> > >
> > > > i have been attempting a debian install via tftp and cdrom on a
> > > > sparcstation 5/170 turbosparc with 128 meg ram without luck for a few
> > > > weeks....
> > > >
> > > > as soon as the ramdisk is loaded hardware resets.
> > > >
> > > > i can boot openbsd and solaris fine.
> > > >
> > > > does anyone have this model runnign debian and if so what
> > > > cdrom/tftpboot.img did you use and any special tricks ??
> > > >
> > > > or is it a lost cause ?
> > >
> > >
> > > I installed Debian woody on my SPARCStation 5/170 and then upgraded
> > > it to sarge with no problems. I did the typical rarp/tftp/net install
> > > using the following tftpboot image:
> > >
> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4cdm/tftpboot.img
> > >
> > > It's been several months now, so the details escape me, but I don't
> > > recall having to jump through any special hoops for the SS5. In fact,
> > > I had an easier time installing Debian on it than an SS20.
> > >
> > > Can you provide more detailed information on what's going wrong?
> > >
> > > - David A. Riggs <riggs at csee dot wvu dot edu>
> >
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