Re: blade 1000 boot problem
Quoting Tib <tib@tigerknight.org>:
> I've recently been given a blade 1000 and have been trying to get debian
> installed on it. It didn't like the cd's I made so I'm having to do a
> tftpboot process, which isn't all that bad.
>
> If I try to use the boot.img from:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-sparc/current//images/sparc64/netboot/
>
> I can get through the prompts for selecting locale and it does a dhcp
> config. Then when it asks for a hostname the keyboard is completely
> unuseable. I can only guess it didn't actually map to the correct locale.
>
> So I tried the 2.6 boot.img, and can get all the way through installation
> with the only problem being manually telling it to use the qlogicfc module
> instead of qlogicisp. It says it needs to reboot, and does so.
>
> The system comes back up, gets to 'Remapping the kernel... done.' and just
> stops. No 'silo mmu fast map' or whatever the error is - just stops dead
> in the water. Stop-a won't even respond. I even let it sit for a nice long
> while in case it was just chugging through all that memory. I don't know
> what to do.
>
> I don't know exactly what the processors are, outside of 2 ultrasparc
> III's. Openboot is v4.0, and there's 8gigs of memory installed.
>
> Anyone know what I can do?
You will find that running a 2.6 kernel is _a lot_ of hassle! There's something
with the machine/kernel that makes everything work very irradic. I know, my
primary server is a SB1k and I've had a lot of strange kernel hangs, krashes
etc.. Kernel 2.4 actually worked better, although a lot slower. I finally have
a kernel that seems to work.
You can find the deb package for the kernel at the URL:
ftp://ftp.bayour.com/pub/debian/dists/woody-ol2.2/binary-sparc/Kernel/kernel-image-2.6.12-rc3-sparc64_10.20_sparc.deb
The TFTP boot image I was using when I installed this machine
roughly a year ago came from 'phunnypharm.org' (image is made
by Ben Collins if I'm not misstaken).
You can find that image (as soon as my web directories have
finished syncing, in a few minutes) at the URL:
http://www.bayour.com/Blade1000/tftpboot_phunnypharm.img
Note that this is a woody system, so if you want/need sarge,
you'll have to do a dist-upgrade when it's finished installing...
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