Re: New test kernel - second attempt
Hi Adrian.
"strong" of my new setup I went bold testing and also exploited one more
time the Sun Fire which was "install donor" for this installation before
putting back its solaris disks and back in original state.
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Can you try this upstream kernel:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/
Copy vmlinux-6.17.0-rc5+, config-6.17.0-rc5+ and System.map-6.17.0-rc5+ into /boot.
Extract mods-6.17.0-rc5+.tgz somewhere and move the "6.17.0-rc5+" folder in the
mods/lib/modules directory into /lib/modules, then run:
$ update-initramfs -c -k 6.17.0-rc5+ -v
$ update-grub
Then reboot into this kernel and report back.
I see this on the V120
[ 2.200440] rtc-m48t59 rtc-m48t59.0: hctosys: unable to read the
hardware clock
then the serial console looks a bit garbage, seems terminal types don't
work well after apt updates! yet it is standard vt102 or ANSI through
minicom as I always used :(
I am able to luckily login via ssh. So machine is "alive". Just for
double-check I rebooted the 6.16 kernel and it still spits out crap. I
think it is color codes that corrupt something.
To Sum Up:
Sun Fire V120 (1x UltraSparc IIe )
---------------------------------------------------------------
debian-sparc64 6.16.7+deb14-sparc64 #1 Debian 6.16.7-1 (2025-09-11)
sparc64 GNU/Linux : boots fine
debian-sparc64 6.17.0-rc5+ #1 SMP Fri Sep 12 20:37:32 UTC 2025 sparc64
GNU/Linux : boots fine
After several boots and restarts, eventually I got a crash on a "warm
restart"...
on Ultra 2:
GRUB Loading kernel.... and hangs there.
I tried a set-defaults since the nvram chip is flakey until i fix it or
a replacement comes, but nothing.
Coherent with CDROM boot?
hangs here....
on Ultra 1:
GRUB Loading kernel.... and hangs there.
This one has a good nvram chip. So it appears that the old Ultras don't
like GRUB? nor from CD nor from the installed system
Could the GRUB version be "tailored" to the Fire 120 and not work on
previous systems?
As a 100% re-check I put in the solaris hard disk and it boots.. until
it fails to fsck extra partition... I lost a disk. Still enough to prove
the system is functional!
So... not a shiny future right now for Linux on the old Ultras
Riccardo
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