Re: Sun fire V890 UltraSparc server kernel panic, offer to assist with fixing it and future ports
Hey Jeff
The machine has four "boards". Each board has two processor sockets and 16 RAM sockets (DIMMs). The label on each board says all RAM slots must be populated.
There may be a way to make part of the ram inaccessible using the OpenBootPROM. I know it's possible to turn off the RAM slots on some of the boards, but even if only one board is active the system will have 8GBs of RAM.
I'll have to research that some more or try with some RAM removed and see what happens.
Aaron
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From: Jeff Thurston [mailto:jthurston.skyline@gmail.com]
To: blue [mailto:blue@aquarat.za.net]
Sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:12:27 +0200
Subject: Re: Sun fire V890 UltraSparc server kernel panic, offer to assist with fixing it and future ports
Just a thought, i recall some sun hardware not booting the installer
if there is more than 1GB of ram.
I had to remove a bunch from our v240s we have here - you can put it
back after the install.
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On Nov 21, 2009, at 3:07 PM, blue <blue@aquarat.za.net> wrote:
> Hey Joy
>
> Etch : If I boot without specifying console=ttya it does the same
> thing; hangs at "Booting Linux". It also hangs if I try booting
> "expert" with console=ttyS0.
>
>
> Lenny : If I don't specify console=ttya, it boots and then stops as
> soon as it's said something to the effect of "handing over console
> [earlyprom0] -> ttyS0". If I specify console=ttya OR
> console=earlyprom0, it has a kernel panic.
>
> Fun hey :P
>
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> From: Josip Rodin [mailto:joy@entuzijast.net]
> To: blue [mailto:blue@aquarat.za.net]
> Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:45:07 +0200
> Subject: Re: Sun fire V890 UltraSparc server kernel panic, offer to
> assist with fixing it and future ports
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:08:38AM +0200, blue wrote:
>> boot: install console=ttya
>> Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
>> Loaded kernel version 2.6.18
>> Loading initial ramdisk (3878328 bytes at 0xD1F9002000 phys,
>> 0x40C00000 virt)...
>>
>> /
>> Using /dev/ttya as console.
>> Remapping the kernel... done.
>> Booting Linux...
>>
>> "
>
> Nothing? Are you sure you should be using "ttya" as the console, I
> thought
> that was a Solaris name? The serial ports under Linux should be
> ttyS0 etc.
>
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