Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

Hello. I've already asked my question on debian-sparc and debian boot 
maillists and got a lot of help but still can't solve the problem entirely.
The problem is (slightly edited minicom log):
=================
Resetting ...

 TTYA not found.
TTYA not found.

SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 (UltraSPARC-III+) , Keyboard Present
Copyright 1998-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.5, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #53064360.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:29:b2:a8, Host ID: 8329b2a8.

Initializing Memory
                                                                      
Rebooting with command: boot net:dhcp serial console=ttyS0 -p
Boot device: /pci@8,700000/network@5,1:dhcp  File and args: serial 
console=ttyS0 -p

<TFTP COUNTER (booting 
http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img 
image)>

PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.5.21 2003/02/24 17:23
<4>Linux version 2.4.21 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 
29 15:40:07 EST 2003
<4>ARCH: SUN4U
Linux version 2.4.21 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Sat Nov 29 
15:40:07 EST 2003
<4>ARCH: SUN4U
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:29:b2:a8
Remapping the kernel... done.
On node 0 totalpages: 130251
zone(0): 130929 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Booting Linux...
Found CPU 0 (nodeð06bd10,mid=0)
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Kernel command line: serial console=ttyS0 -p
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 599.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1029680k available (2504k kernel code, 576k data, 184k init) 
[fffff80000000000,000000003fee2000]
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing for controllers.
SCHIZO0 PBMB: ver[5:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004700000]
SCHIZO0 PBMB: PCI CFG[7ffee000000] IO[7ffef000000] MEM[7fe00000000]
SCHIZO0 PBMA: ver[5:0], portid 8, cregs[40004400000] pregs[40004600000]
SCHIZO0 PBMA: PCI CFG[7ffec000000] IO[7ffed000000] MEM[7fd00000000]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 1] map[0] to INO[0c]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 2] map[0] to INO[10]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1d]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1e]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 5] map[0] to INO[1f]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[18]
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 6] map[0] to INO[19]
PCI0(PBMB): Bus running at 33MHz
PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 1] slot[ 4] map[0] to INO[04]
PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 66MHz
ebus0: [flashprom] [bbc] [ppm] [i2c -> (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) (dimm-fru) 
(dimm-fru) (nvram) (idprom)] [i2c -> (cpu-fru) (temperature) (fan-control) 
(card-reader) (motherboard-fru) (i2c-bridge)] [beep] [audio] [rtc] [gpio] 
[pmc] [floppy] [parallel] [serial]
SAB82532 serial driver version 1.65
ttyS00 at 0x7fe7e400000 (irq = 12,222) is a SAB82532 V3.2
ttyS01 at 0x7fe7e400040 (irq = 12,222) is a SAB82532 V3.2
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
chmc0: US3 memory controller at 0000040000400000 [ACTIVE]
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
atyfb: 3D RAGE (XL) [0x4752 rev 0x27] 8M SGRAM, 29.498928 MHz XTAL, 230 MHz 
PLL, 100 Mhz MCLK
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI
kbd_init: Assuming USB keyboard.
8042(speaker): iobase[000007fe7e000032]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
sungem.c:v0.97 3/20/02 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
eth%d: MII PHY ID: 18074c0 Lucent
eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:29:b2:a8
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
qlogicfc0 : Could not read from NVRAM
qlogicfc0 : Loop Reinitialized
qlogicfc0 : Link is Up
scsi0 : QLogic ISP2200 SCSI on PCI bus 01 device 20 irq 7683520 base 
0x7ffed000300
qlogicfc0 : Port Database
wwn: 200000e08b000000  scsi_id: 0  loop_id: 0
wwn: 500000e010307b31  scsi_id: 1  loop_id: 1
wwn: 21000004cf574692  scsi_id: 2  loop_id: 2
  Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MAN3735F SUN72G   Rev: 0704
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST373307FSUN72G   Rev: 0207
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
sym.0.6.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym.0.6.1: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym0: <875> rev 0x37 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 4,218
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
sym1: <875> rev 0x37 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 1 irq 4,219
sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym1: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi1 : sym-2.1.17a
scsi2 : sym-2.1.17a
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1401  Rev: 1009
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
Partition check:
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p8
SCSI device sdb: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB)
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p7
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:49:35 Nov 29 2003
host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x7fe01000000, IRQ 9,21f
host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:05.3, PCI device 108e:1103
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 1229k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
=====================That's all. It hangs here.

If I specify init=/bin/sh it attempts to kill init and panics.

If I'm plugging out keyboard or using "real" console or serial port connection 
- it not matters and the problem persists.

I've got some hints about "TTYA not found." in the very beginning but I do not 
know what to tell openboot to use insted (And I fear to experiment to not 
broke openboot - I'm very newbie on sparc but have good experience with 
linux).

Please help or point me to a proper maillist (may-be ultralinux ? ).

-- 
Respectfully
Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Joshua Kwan]

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:43:30AM +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> <TFTP COUNTER (booting 
> http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img 
> image)>

You should really be using the Sarge tftboot images.
http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc64/netboot/boot.img

> devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> devfs: boot_options: 0x0

This is the cause of all your problems.

> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.

Pass devfs=mount on the command line and it should Just Work.
Note that this crude hack isn't required in the latest images.

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Joshua Kwan

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins]

> kbd_init: Assuming USB keyboard.

> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:49:35 Nov 29 2003
> host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x7fe01000000, IRQ 9,21f
> host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:05.3, PCI device 108e:1103
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 4 ports detected
> usb.c: registered new driver hid
> hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers

Is it a USB keyboard? If it is, it isn't getting detected.

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:53:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:43:30AM +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> > <TFTP COUNTER (booting 
> > http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/sparc64/tftpboot.img 
> > image)>
> 
> You should really be using the Sarge tftboot images.
> http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc64/netboot/boot.img

No, he shouldn't those images aren't tested very well. My woody images
are.

> > devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> > devfs: boot_options: 0x0
> 
> This is the cause of all your problems.
> 
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> 
> Pass devfs=mount on the command line and it should Just Work.
> Note that this crude hack isn't required in the latest images.

That shouldn't matter with the image he is using.


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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Joshua Kwan]

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > You should really be using the Sarge tftboot images.
> > http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc64/netboot/boot.img
> 
> No, he shouldn't those images aren't tested very well. My woody images
> are.

You seem to have missed the numerous successful (or mostly so) installation
reports on both sparc and sparc64 and my hijack (to Debian Install System
Team) of your mostly broken silo-installer package and serial console fixes,
all of which contributed to successes with the new Debian installer.

In short, thanks for undermining our past few months' work.

> > Pass devfs=mount on the command line and it should Just Work.
> > Note that this crude hack isn't required in the latest images.
> 
> That shouldn't matter with the image he is using.

I thought that the images were d-i/sarge based. This was a dominant
problem until fairly recently (where the hack was to pass devfs=mount on
the command line.)

I basically know nothing about boot-floppies on !i386, so I'd not have
spoken up if I had known.

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Vincent Cojot]

Hi Alexey,

I can't help you with the debian boot images but I have a version of Linux
working just fine on my SunBlade 2000 (4GB RAM, 2*900 Mhz US-III+):

[root@silvanost root]# uname -a
Linux silvanost SMP Wed Sep 24 14:26:17 EDT 2003 sparc64 unknown

[root@silvanost root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)
fpu             : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU
promlib         : Version 3 Revision 10
prom            : 4.10.11
type            : sun4u
ncpus probed    : 2
ncpus active    : 2
Cpu0Bogo        : 599.65
Cpu0ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
Cpu1Bogo        : 599.65
Cpu1ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
MMU Type        : Cheetah+
State:
CPU0:           online
CPU1:           online

The OS is Aurora 1.0 and the boot images were taken from the build-1.0
directories. Although I have not used a TFTP install (I have a DVD-ROM in
the machine), I know that the tftp64.img boot image works fine for me
(grab a copy if you wish at: ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-1.0/en/os/sparc/images )

The differences I could spot between your attempts and my install are as
follows:
- You're using an old OBP (look for free patch 111292-16 on sunsolve).

- The fact you're using OBP 4.5 coupled with the fact you have only 1GB
RAM in your machine makes me think that perhaps you have the older (i.e:
Non-CU) 750Mhz or 900Mhz US-III cpus. I don't know if that could make a
difference..

- Also, I installed Aurora using the 1.0 build ISO's whereas you're
oviously netbooting your machine (can't know if that makes a difference in
this case...). At any case, I installed Aurora using a serial port, just
like you (the Aurora kernels didnd't like my console, always resulting in
a 'Fast data accesss MMU miss' when booting).

Can't be of much help, here... I hope you get it working.

Cheers,

Vincent

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:

> Hello. I've already asked my question on debian-sparc and debian boot
> maillists and got a lot of help but still can't solve the problem entirely.
> The problem is (slightly edited minicom log):
> =================
> Resetting ...
>
>  TTYA not found.
> TTYA not found.
>
> SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 (UltraSPARC-III+) , Keyboard Present
> Copyright 1998-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> OpenBoot 4.5, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #53064360.
> Ethernet address 0:3:ba:29:b2:a8, Host ID: 8329b2a8.
>

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:23:46PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > You should really be using the Sarge tftboot images.
> > > http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc64/netboot/boot.img
> > 
> > No, he shouldn't those images aren't tested very well. My woody images
> > are.
> 
> You seem to have missed the numerous successful (or mostly so) installation
> reports on both sparc and sparc64 and my hijack (to Debian Install System
> Team) of your mostly broken silo-installer package and serial console fixes,
> all of which contributed to successes with the new Debian installer.
> 
> In short, thanks for undermining our past few months' work.

Thanks for belittling my years of work on the sparc port. I appreciate
that.

> > > Pass devfs=mount on the command line and it should Just Work.
> > > Note that this crude hack isn't required in the latest images.
> > 
> > That shouldn't matter with the image he is using.
> 
> I thought that the images were d-i/sarge based. This was a dominant
> problem until fairly recently (where the hack was to pass devfs=mount on
> the command line.)
> 
> I basically know nothing about boot-floppies on !i386, so I'd not have
> spoken up if I had known.

Great, piping in when you aren't sure of what's going on.

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Joshua Kwan]

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:26:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > In short, thanks for undermining our past few months' work.
> 
> Thanks for belittling my years of work on the sparc port. I appreciate
> that.

I never meant such a thing, but just because you've been doing something
for a long time doesn't mean you should eschew new things which, on the
whole (not necessarily sparc-port centric), are leaps and bounds over the
last. Receiving some support and encouragement from the old guard,
alternatively, tells us that we're on the right track.

> > I basically know nothing about boot-floppies on !i386, so I'd not have
> > spoken up if I had known.
> 
> Great, piping in when you aren't sure of what's going on.

Conceded. Nobody's perfect. :P

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Vincent Cojot]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:

> Unfortunately it seems that I've already tryed it with the same result. Can
> you please send me md5 of your file?
> Mine is
> b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  aurora.img

raistlin@thorbardin:[~][1008]$ md5sum  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  /tftpboot/tftp64.img

It's the same image.. (Sorry, I had missed that part in your message...)

Vincent

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:07:41PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:26:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > In short, thanks for undermining our past few months' work.
> > 
> > Thanks for belittling my years of work on the sparc port. I appreciate
> > that.
> 
> I never meant such a thing, but just because you've been doing something
> for a long time doesn't mean you should eschew new things which, on the
> whole (not necessarily sparc-port centric), are leaps and bounds over the
> last. Receiving some support and encouragement from the old guard,
> alternatively, tells us that we're on the right track.

If the debian-installer team wasn't such asses about everything, I might
be more like that. Only thing I've ever gotten from them is heated
emails about "your arch wont be supported" and "you aren't doing
enough". I've been pretty much fed up with the whole attitude. Bailey is
the only one I've been able to work with on a professional level.

I've not tested the new installer, but I have seen that it has bugs, so
my _best_ option is to suggest my own working woody based install
images. If people are having problems getting a machine running, I have
to point them where I know things will work. I also can't expect every
user to be a guinea pig.

> > > I basically know nothing about boot-floppies on !i386, so I'd not have
> > > spoken up if I had known.
> > 
> > Great, piping in when you aren't sure of what's going on.
> 
> Conceded. Nobody's perfect. :P

I'll take that position too. I'm not perfect, but the debian-installer
team in general expects everyone else to be ;)

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

I think that my mails were dropped due to 8-bit symbols in them.
Re-posting my answers:
==1st mail===================I have another question - since problem is very tough I can try installation 
with more recent (2.6.5) kernel. But I have to recompile it myself - so - can 
you give me some tips about this process or give some links to already 
compiled kernels?
==2nd mail================> > kbd_init: Assuming USB keyboard.
> >
> > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> > usb.c: registered new driver hub
> > host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:49:35 Nov 29 2003
> > host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> > host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> > host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x7fe01000000, IRQ 9,21f
> > host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:05.3, PCI device 108e:1103
> > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> > hub.c: USB hub found
> > hub.c: 4 ports detected
> > usb.c: registered new driver hid
> > hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
> > hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
>
> Is it a USB keyboard? If it is, it isn't getting detected.
I'm starting using serial port connection with keyboard and mouse unplugged. 
Monitor stays black all the time of booting. If I'm switching to console then 
the result is same less that I can't do logging in this case.
==3rd mail=================
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:53:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:43:30AM +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> > > <TFTP COUNTER (booting
> > > http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/disks-sparc/current/spar
> > >c64/tftpboot.img image)>
> >
> > You should really be using the Sarge tftboot images.
> > http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc64/netboot/boot.im
> >g
These sarge tftp boot images producing exactly the same effect.
> No, he shouldn't those images aren't tested very well. My woody images
> are.
Woody images do not boot *at*all*. Instead they produce junk and trash on the 
screen resulting either in "memory address not aligned" or "fast data MMU 
miss" error and hard hang. BTW sarge's cdrom boot also does this weird error.

> > > devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> > > devfs: boot_options: 0x0
> >
> > This is the cause of all your problems.
> >
> > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >
> > Pass devfs=mount on the command line and it should Just Work.
> > Note that this crude hack isn't required in the latest images.
>
> That shouldn't matter with the image he is using.
Sadly, but yes.
==4th mail========================> Hi Alexey,
>
> I can't help you with the debian boot images but I have a version of Linux
> working just fine on my SunBlade 2000 (4GB RAM, 2*900 Mhz US-III+):
>
> [root@silvanost root]# uname -a
> Linux silvanost SMP Wed Sep 24 14:26:17 EDT 2003 sparc64 unknown
>
> [root@silvanost root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu             : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)
> fpu             : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU
> promlib         : Version 3 Revision 10
> prom            : 4.10.11
> type            : sun4u
> ncpus probed    : 2
> ncpus active    : 2
> Cpu0Bogo        : 599.65
> Cpu0ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
> Cpu1Bogo        : 599.65
> Cpu1ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
> MMU Type        : Cheetah+
> State:
> CPU0:           online
> CPU1:           online
>
> The OS is Aurora 1.0 and the boot images were taken from the build-1.0
> directories. Although I have not used a TFTP install (I have a DVD-ROM in
> the machine), I know that the tftp64.img boot image works fine for me
> (grab a copy if you wish at:
> ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-1.0/en/os/sparc/images )
Unfortunately this image do not work as well (again "initial console not 
found").
>
> The differences I could spot between your attempts and my install are as
> follows:
> - You're using an old OBP (look for free patch 111292-16 on sunsolve).
Yeah I've seen several references that this problem sometimes get fixed with 
OBP update. But since I'm completely newbie in Sun tech I was moderately 
feared such way and choosed to try all less destructive ways before (If I 
will thrash OBP the system most brobably become unbootable and I will get a 
*very* serious troubles on my work). But now I think this is the only way 
that I can try. I will report here about of my [un]success.
>
> - The fact you're using OBP 4.5 coupled with the fact you have only 1GB
> RAM in your machine makes me think that perhaps you have the older (i.e:
> Non-CU) 750Mhz or 900Mhz US-III cpus. I don't know if that could make a
> difference..
>
> - Also, I installed Aurora using the 1.0 build ISO's whereas you're
> oviously netbooting your machine (can't know if that makes a difference in
> this case...). At any case, I installed Aurora using a serial port, just
> like you (the Aurora kernels didnd't like my console, always resulting in
> a 'Fast data accesss MMU miss' when booting).
Aurora ISO image weights ~700M and I can download such volume in a long term 
only but not now.
>
> Can't be of much help, here... I hope you get it working.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> > Hello. I've already asked my question on debian-sparc and debian boot
> > maillists and got a lot of help but still can't solve the problem
> > entirely. The problem is (slightly edited minicom log):
> > =================
> > Resetting ...
> >
> >  TTYA not found.
> > TTYA not found.
> >
> > SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 (UltraSPARC-III+) , Keyboard Present
> > Copyright 1998-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> > OpenBoot 4.5, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #53064360.
> > Ethernet address 0:3:ba:29:b2:a8, Host ID: 8329b2a8.
===========================

Resume:
I've upgraded my OBP and POST to yesterday's version:
OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:27
POST 4.13.0 2004/03/15 19:13

Vincent pointed me that I have two video cards in my box and I removed one.
I've already tried to boot d-i beta3 cdrom, d-i beta3 tftp image d-i daily 
image (by 07.04.2004), aurora tftp64 image, woody tftp image and image from 
phunnypharm - all without success either with console boot or serial port 
connection boot.

Now I'm getting strong opinion that my box have some unusual hardware that 
kernel doesn't know about and searching for 2.6 tftp (preferrably) or small 
cdrom image. If you know about one - please send me a note about it.

I can provide additional information on request.

Thanks for your help.

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Respectfully
Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:56:54 -0400 (EDT)
Vincent Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately it seems that I've already tryed it with the same result. Can
> > you please send me md5 of your file?
> > Mine is
> > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  aurora.img
> 
> raistlin@thorbardin:[~][1008]$ md5sum  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> 
> It's the same image.. (Sorry, I had missed that part in your message...)

I think it's the graphics card, you probably are using one we
don't have any drivers for yet.  What's in the machine?

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Vincent Cojot]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, David S. Miller wrote:

> > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately it seems that I've already tryed it with the same result. Can
> > > you please send me md5 of your file?
> > > Mine is
> > > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  aurora.img
> >
> > raistlin@thorbardin:[~][1008]$ md5sum  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> >
> > It's the same image.. (Sorry, I had missed that part in your message...)
>
> I think it's the graphics card, you probably are using one we
> don't have any drivers for yet.  What's in the machine?

Alexey has both an M64 and an Expert3D-Lite in his sb2k machine and
they're both pretty standard so I guess it -should- work for him, at least
via a serial install. I suggested to him on #sparc that he removes both
cards and tries a serial install again..

On my side, I have an XVR-1000 (MAJC5200) in my sb2k so it shouldn't work
but in fact it does.. :) I always got the 'Fast data access MMU miss' at
the console when netbooting but I have reproductibly installed Aurora 1.0
from CD-ROM on my machine (netbooting worked fine too) by using the ttya
serial port. Once I got it installed on a SCSI disk, the console started
working in text mode just fine with my SUN Type-6 USB keyboard and
logitech mouse..

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:56:54 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Vincent Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> > > Unfortunately it seems that I've already tryed it with the same result.
> > > Can you please send me md5 of your file?
> > > Mine is
> > > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  aurora.img
> >
> > raistlin@thorbardin:[~][1008]$ md5sum  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> >
> > It's the same image.. (Sorry, I had missed that part in your message...)
>
> I think it's the graphics card, you probably are using one we
> don't have any drivers for yet.  What's in the machine?
My configuration:
root@STAT # /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems  sun4u SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 
(UltraSPARC-I 
System clock frequency: 150 MHZ
Memory size: 1GB        

================== CPUs ==================
               E$          CPU     CPU       Temperature
CPU  Freq      Size        Impl.   Mask     Die    Ambient
---  --------  ----------  ------  ----  --------  --------
 0    900 MHz  8MB         US-III+   2.3     69 C     25 C

================= IO Devices ================     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name                          Model
---  ----  ----  ----------  ----------------------------  
--------------------
 0   pci    33            1  SUNW,m64B (display)           SUNW,370-4362      
 0   pci    33            2  SUNW,Expert3D-Lite (display)  SUNW,375-0116      
 0   pci    66            4  SUNW,qlc-pci1077,2200.5 (scs+                    
 0   pci    33            5  ebus/parallel-ns87317-ecpp (+                    
 0   pci    33            5  ebus/serial-sab82532 (serial+                    
 0   pci    33            5  network-pci108e,1101.1 (netw+ SUNW,pci-eri       
 0   pci    33            5  firewire-pci108e,1102.1001 (+                    
 0   pci    33            6  scsi-pci1000,f.37 (scsi-2)                       
 0   pci    33            6  scsi-pci1000,f.37 (scsi-2)                       

============== Memory Configuration ==============
Segment Table:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Base Address       Size       Interleave Factor  Contains
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x0                1GB               2           BankIDs 0,2

Bank Table:
-----------------------------------------------------------
           Physical Location
ID       ControllerID  GroupID   Size       Interleave Way
-----------------------------------------------------------
0        0             0         512MB           0
2        0             0         512MB           1

Memory Module Groups:
--------------------------------------------------
ControllerID   GroupID  Labels
--------------------------------------------------
0              0        J0100,J0202,J0304,J0406

================ usb Devices ===============
Name          Port#
------------  -----
keyboard        3
mouse           4

============== Environmental Status ==============
Fan Speeds:
----------------------------
Fan Device            Speed
----------------------------
system                  19%
cpu                     22%
power-supply           100%

================ HW Revisions ================
ASIC Revisions:
---------------
pci: Rev 5
pci: Rev 5
ebus: Rev 1

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:27
POST 4.13.0 2004/03/15 19:13



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Respectfully
Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

8/04/2004 23:52 Vincent Cojot wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately it seems that I've already tryed it with the same
> > > > result. Can you please send me md5 of your file?
> > > > Mine is
> > > > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  aurora.img
> > >
> > > raistlin@thorbardin:[~][1008]$ md5sum  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> > > b85b3eb7ba3176745b60fa1f47b03bc3  /tftpboot/tftp64.img
> > >
> > > It's the same image.. (Sorry, I had missed that part in your
> > > message...)
> >
> > I think it's the graphics card, you probably are using one we
> > don't have any drivers for yet.  What's in the machine?
>
> Alexey has both an M64 and an Expert3D-Lite in his sb2k machine and
> they're both pretty standard so I guess it -should- work for him, at least
> via a serial install. I suggested to him on #sparc that he removes both
> cards and tries a serial install again..
Removed both video cards along with CNR audio card. Now I did not have any 
boards in my box - except of motherboard. Still the same effect.

-- 
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Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 08:10:36 +0400
Alexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru> wrote:

>  0   pci    33            2  SUNW,Expert3D-Lite (display)  SUNW,375-0116      

Yeah, yank this out of the machine and use the
m64 as your console.

Either that or Ben needs to start building the PROM fb
console driver into the tree if he isn't already.
I bet that's why the other distribution's kernel works.

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

9/04/2004 10:22 David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 08:10:36 +0400
>
> Alexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru> wrote:
> >  0   pci    33            2  SUNW,Expert3D-Lite (display)  SUNW,375-0116
>
> Yeah, yank this out of the machine and use the
> m64 as your console.
Already tried. Same effect.

> Either that or Ben needs to start building the PROM fb
> console driver into the tree if he isn't already.
> I bet that's why the other distribution's kernel works.
I have not found any kernel that works. I've tried aurora's and sarge's but 
all finally gets to "WARNING: Unable to open initial console" message and 
hangs.

===Offtopic:===
I'm now trying to boot FreeBSD - if I can't boot linux - I can try to stay 
with GNU at least. But have no success of booting from swap partition yet:
I'm doing:
root@STAT # mount
/ on /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 
read/write/setuid/intr/largefiles/onerror=panic/dev\x1d804
.....
root@STAT # swap -l 
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1   118,1      16 2106416 2106416
root@STAT # swap -d /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1 was dump device --
invoking dumpadm(1M) -d swap to select new dump device
dumpadm: no swap devices are available
root@STAT # dd if=miniroot.ufs of=/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s1
root@STAT # init 0
ok boot diskX:Y

but have not found any correct X:Y combination. Every time I'm trying it - it 
boots Solaris complains that can't find root and reboots:

Rebooting with command: boot disk:1                                   
Boot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@1,0:1  File and args: 
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-29 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Cannot assemble drivers for 
root /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@w500000e01
Cannot mount root 
on /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0/disk@w500000e010307b31,0:1s

panic[cpu0]/thread\x10408000: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root

0000000010407970 genunix:vfs_mountroot+70 (10436800, 0, 0, 104395c8, 10, 14)
  %l0-3: 0000000010436800 0000000010439f20 000000003e000000 0000000010436a28
  %l4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000010413868 00000000000beafd 0000000000000afd
0000000010407a20 genunix:main+8c (104101f0, 2000, 10407ec0, 10408030, fff2, 
100)
  %l0-3: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000000000015 0000000000000f36
  %l4-7: 0000000010429638 0000000010475c10 00000000000d7438 0000000000000540

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...

Can anyone help me in this (offlist probably)?

-- 
Respectfully
Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:22:33PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 08:10:36 +0400
> Alexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru> wrote:
> 
> >  0   pci    33            2  SUNW,Expert3D-Lite (display)  SUNW,375-0116      
> 
> Yeah, yank this out of the machine and use the
> m64 as your console.
> 
> Either that or Ben needs to start building the PROM fb
> console driver into the tree if he isn't already.
> I bet that's why the other distribution's kernel works.

Was pretty sure I was doing that. I'll recheck though.

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Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

Well, after a week of unsuccessfull tries I can conclude that I can not fire 
up GNU system on my sb2k. Thanks for all your help that I have got.

Most probably that I will try my luck again several times with different 
FreeBSD approaches and most probably end up with Solaris system.
This is sad but it seems that my box is too unlucky with current linux kernel.
And I can not try 2.6 kernel since nobody agreed to mail me a compiled binary 
(Oh well - I know this is serious risk to got a troyan but I have no 
alternative). I will try to compile it myself on solaris but I think this 
will take a long time to find how to do it.

-- 
Respectfully
Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:09:16 +0400
Alexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru> wrote:

> This is sad but it seems that my box is too unlucky with current linux kernel.

None of the developers have such a system, so it not working
is really not all that surprising. :-)

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

13/04/2004 09:21 David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:09:16 +0400
>
> Alexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru> wrote:
> > This is sad but it seems that my box is too unlucky with current linux
> > kernel.
>
> None of the developers have such a system, so it not working
> is really not all that surprising. :-)
I can provide all needed level of access if it will make difference (except of 
physical of course) :) .

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Alexey Nezhdanov

Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:04:40AM +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:
> 13/04/2004 09:21 David S. Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:09:16 +0400
> >
> > Alexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru> wrote:
> > > This is sad but it seems that my box is too unlucky with current linux
> > > kernel.
> >
> > None of the developers have such a system, so it not working
> > is really not all that surprising. :-)
> I can provide all needed level of access if it will make difference (except of 
> physical of course) :) .

If you can setup serial console access to it from another box that I can
ssh into, I'll try to get it booting. You will also need tftp/rarp setup
on the ssh box, and give me enough access to put items on there for the
sb2k to netboot from.

Contact me privately if that's of interest to you. Would be best if the
sb2k had LOM (Lights Out Management) or you had a UPS that I could also
get to for doing power cycles to avoid long delays when the machine
locks solid and I need to get you to power cycle it.

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