From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Malcolm Beattie Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:40:12 +0000 Subject: Re: Mixed news: new UP 1.0.9 on Ultra5 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org I retried installing on my Ultra5 today with Jakub's latest UP 1.0.9 update that he put there on Monday. The installation went fine right up until it tried to make a boot disk. I put a floppy in the drive, hit "Yes, make a boot disk" and the kernel log on VC 4 came up with: <4>floppy0: probe failed... (12 lines of the above) <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 <7>VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 and the cycle then repeated indefinitely "probe failed" x 12 etc). I killed the "bask mkbootdisk" process but the genromfs process stuch in D state. That kept the loop device busy so that the following "install SILO bootloader" couldn't do its "insmod /modules/loop.o" and thus failed. I redid the installation from scratch and this time chose not to make a boot diskette. Everything seemed to install perfectly this time and at the "Congratulations...hit return to reboot" I did so. Booting went fine up until the Adding swap... line at which point there was a pause (30 secs to 1 minute perhaps) before it went on with Swansea... IPX... sunhme.c:v1.2 ... eth0: HAPPY MEAL... eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver at 10Mb/s, Half Duplex and then hung. Hitting the CapsLock key lit the light (I don't know if that's relevant on sparc arch). I power cycled and did "boot" from the boot prom "ok" prompt. This time the boot only got as far as CMD646: MDMA enable... and then hung at that point. Are there any magic keys enabled on sparc to dump any info? It looks like I'm nearly but not quite there. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services