Re: Booting An Ultra Sparc 10

[Stephan van Hienen <ddx@cable.a2000.nl>]

On Tue, 12 May 1998, David Andrew - Sun MDE wrote:

> Stephan,
> 
> You can make the Open Boot Prom skip the on-board graphics controller by 
> doing the following:
hmms is it crashing cause my graphic card ?

> 
> At the ok prompt type the following:
> 
> 1) ok " setenv pcib-probe-list 1,3 "
> 
>        {This will mask out device "2"(m64b@2)on motherboard, and
>         force the system to use the PCI graphics card instead.}
nah i use the onboard video now (ati)
the 3d card (Creator 3d) is not attached at all to an monitor (i still
have to get an converter to 15pins vga for my hitachi svga monitor)

so i have to take this card out ?


>         
> 2) ok " reset "    
> 
>         {This will store new entry into the nvram, so the PCI card 
>         is the console boot device.}
> 
> That should work - we do that in our lab to test other graphics cards.

P.s. what was the way to subscribe to this mailing list ?
(i saw i today somewhere, but i think somethin went wrong with my reply
adres)

but now i can't find it anymore



> 
> David Andrew
> ----------------
> > Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 19:56:55 +0000
> > From: Stephan van Hienen <s.v.hienen@cable.a2000.nl>
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> > To: ultralinux@vger.rutgers.edu, ddx@cable.a2000.nl
> > Subject: Booting An Ultra Sparc 10
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> > 
> > hi just wanted to install on an ultra sparc 10
> > (300mhz ultra II with 320mb ram)
> > i'm doing the load with boot net
> > form an intel redhat 5.0 (p2)
> > 
> > i shows linux 2.1.99 (or the .old image or .verryold)
> > 320mb ram
> > and that i use the ati controller (there is also an creator 3d inside,
> > but the monitor is on the oboard card)
> > 
> > and it crashes :
> > 
> > openboot 3.11
> > 
> > 
> > Boot device /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1
> > 
> > i tells me :
> > 
> > Found cpu 0
> > found 1 cpu  prom device tree node(s).
> > Central: no central found.
> > Memory: 319560k available (1576k kernel code, 4432k data, 152 init)
> > [fffff80000000000,fffff80013f26000]
> > SBUS: No SBUS's found.
> > Console: colour SUNPCI 128x54, 16 point font, 864 scans
> > PCI: Probing for controllers
> > PCI: Found SABRE, main regs at ffff(5f)9fe00000000
> > SABRE: PCI cofnfig space at fffff9fe01000000
> > SABREL DVMA at c0000000 [2 [20000000]
> > 
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware 
> > ebus0: fff.........
> > ebus1: fff...........
> > mach64_init:  IOBASE[fffff9fe02c00100] MEMBASE[fffff9ffe1000000]
> > mah<err>
> > mach64_init  chip_type[4754], total_vram[00200000]
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference<1>tsk->mm->context > > 0000000000000000
> > tsk->mm->pgd = fffff800000020000
> > 
> > (here a picture )
> > 
> > swapper(0):Oops
> > TSTATE: and then some registers
> > ......
> > .......
> > .......
> > .......
> > ......
> > .......
> > .......
> > DUMP:
> > 
> > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
> > In swapper task - not syncing
> > Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
> > _
> > 
> > 
> > and that is it
> > 
> > 
> > P.s. also mail me at ddx@cable.a2000.nl
> > because i'm not approved by the list owner to be on the list
> > so i can't read the list
> > 
> > P.s. i typed this stuff in
> > so i can have made a  mistake
> 
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