Re: network install problem - UltraSparc 60

[BERTRAND Joel <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>]

Willie a écrit :
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:44 +0100, "BERTRAND Joel"
> <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>  wrote:
> > Willie a écrit :
> > > Good day.
> > >
> > > I've managed to set up working rarp and tftp servers on an x86 debian
> > > laptop, and I see the headless U60 booting across the network via a
> > > terminal server on ttyA, but eventually the boot process hangs. Here are
> > > the last few lines of boot messages:
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > [    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
> > > [    0.000000]   Normal          0 ->     393078
> > > [    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
> > > [    0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
> > > [    0.000000]     0:        0 ->     131072
> > > [    0.000000]     0:   262144 ->     393078
> > > [    0.000000] Booting Linux...
> > > [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.
> > > Total pages: 259318
> > > [    0.000000] Kernel command line:
> > > [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> > > [    0.000000] clocksource: mult[238db] shift[16]
> > > [    0.000000] clockevent: mult[7334e15e] shift[32]
> > > [  266.802741] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> > > [  266.855795] console handover: boot [earlyprom0] ->   real [tty0]
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > > The boot server directory /var/lib/tftpboot contains:
> > >
> > > boot.img
> > > C0A89E64 -->   boot.img
> > >
> > >
> > > ...which I obtained from
> > > /debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot
> >
> > 	Hello,
> >
> > 	It's not a tftp trouble. Your U60 is able to find your boot image. You
> > say that you don't have any framebuffer and output you have posted shows
> > that kernel tries to switch to a framebuffer to attach tty0. Can you try
> > with a frambuffer ? If not, you have to be sure that your boot image
> > contains all modules required to support console on serial line. If I
> > have more time this afternoon, I shall check on my U60.
> >
> > 	Regards,
> >
> > 	JKB
>
>
> Thank you Joel,
>
> In fact there is an Expert 3D graphics card in the machine, but I don't
> have either a monitor or keyboard attached. I understand that in the
> absence of a real console a Sparc will drop back to ttyA for
> input/output?

	Of course, if you don't have any keyboard, openprom switch to ttya by 
default, but you can configure this line. And in your case, openprom 
switch to serial line. But if you want to access to your OS, it has to 
support this serial line. Solaris support it by default, but I'm not 
sure that debian does. Thus, you can see all messages sent by kernel to 
openprom until kernel switches to framebuffer. I have installed some 
T1000 without any trouble, but hardware support differs. Maybe there is 
an kernel option for your case.

	If I remember, you should have a SunSU serial and builtin support in 
boot kernel. If boot image does not contains support for console on 
serial line, you have to write a bug report ;-)

	Regards,

	JKB