Re: Mixed news: new UP 1.0.9 on Ultra5

[Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>]

> 
> > Aha, I forgot to mention that SBUS fdtwo is not in healthy 
> > state in the kernel yet, what works perfectly is PCI fdthree
> > (both fd0 and fd1 whichever it happens), plus maybe sun4m fdtwo, but 
> > I'm not sure about it. In fact, I'd be graceful if someone with a sun4m
> > fdtwo could acknowledge if it works in recent kernels (2.1.120+) or not.
> > If yes, then we have some Ultra/SBUS floppy related bug, otherwise it is
> > a problem common to fdtwo.
> 
> OK, if you want anyone to test any changes, to get it working, just ask.

I have the floppy drive here myself (well, to be honest, now for a couple of
days I've exchanged together with my Ultra1/FFB for another Ultra1/cg6), but
I haven't yet had time to dig into that.

> 
> > > tty_io.c: process 1 (init) used obsolete /dev/cua1 - update 
> > > software to use /dev/ttyS1
> > 
> > Ok, this is my bug (well, laziness on my part) in that I have 
> > not fixed the setserial package to omit overwriting /dev/console
> > device, so that serial installs do the above. I'll do that in a
> > couple of minutes.
> 
> I've just grabbed the latest changes, and it all works. :)
> 
> I noted a few very minor errors though:
> Xconfigurator tries to run, even though I have not installed
> any X stuff.

But you have installed Xconfigurator, that's why it is run.
You don't have to, and in fact it is not in the Base set, by default only in
X sets.

> When booting for the first time the root partition was not
> cleanly unmounted.

Are you sure you were not doing something on tty2? I get the same result
e.g. when I forgot some mount hanging on tty2...

> I still cannot make a boot disk, but that is probably the floppy drive
> problem.

Yep.
> 
> Now this machine is installed I was going to start using it, but
> if you want me to test installing ultrapenguin again, I'll wait
> before doing any work on it, as its the only UltraSPARC machine
> we've got here.

Go ahead and use it :)

Cheers,
    Jakub
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