From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rick@dgii.com (Rick Richardson) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:01:17 +0000 Subject: Re: Boot of 1.0.9 fails on Sun Ultra 1 (actually, Ultra 30) Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Rick Richardson writes... > Dear UltraPenguins: > > We dug up an UltraSparc machine here that identifies itself on > the boot screen as: > > Sun Ultra 1 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-II 248 Mhz) > > It has 128 MB's of RAM in it. > [snip] > At the "ok" prompt, we booted off the network using the following > command. The machine sucked down the boot image from the tftp server, > and then ended with an error message "Couldn't get translation > property". Here is what is on the screen: > > ok boot /pci@1f,4000/pci@4/SUNW,hme@0,1 > Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/pci@4/SUNW,hme@0,1 File and args: > 27a800 TILO > > Couldn't get translation property > Program terminated > ok > > > Does anybody know what this means and how to correct the problem? Hmm. The silence on this problem is, well, scary. Maybe nobody is actually working on UltraPenguin anymore? I did find out that the machine in question is an Ultra-30, if that helps. Also, the message is apparently coming from Linux itself: /usr/src/linux-2.1.107/linux/arch/sparc64/mm/init.c: ... #define MAX_TRANSLATIONS 64 static inline void inherit_prom_mappings(void) { struct linux_prom_translation transl[MAX_TRANSLATIONS]; pgd_t *pgdp; pmd_t *pmdp; pte_t *ptep; int node, n, i; node = prom_finddevice("/virtual-memory"); if ((n = prom_getproperty(node, "translations", (char *) transl, sizeof(transl))) = -1) { prom_printf("Couldn't get translation property\n"); prom_halt(); } I have no real experience with Ultra's, but if somebody could give me the low down on what this code is trying to do, I could investigate it further. -Rick -- Rick Richardson Sr. Techno-something Its 1993 again, and I don't have Digi Intl. Email: rick@dgii.com a Web page. 11001 Bren Rd. East Fax: (612) 912-4955 Minnetonka, MN 55343 Tel: (612) 912-3212