ultrapenguin 1.1

ultrapenguin 1.1

[Alessandro Leona]

Does ultrapenguin 1.1 run on a UltraSparc 10 Creator 3D ?
The uprocessor is a UltraSparc-IIi - 300MHz.
I succeeded in running rarp and tftp, but when the machine finishes loading
a box appears in the upper left corner of the screen (sometimes it's a cross,
sometimes an arrow) and the machine gets stuck with the message
root child is f002ca28.
Do I need to put other files under the /tftpboot directory ?
Thanks
Regards
Alessandro Leona

Re: ultrapenguin 1.1

[David S. Miller]

   Date: 	Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:27:57 +0100
   From: leona@tristan.unipv.it (Alessandro Leona)

   Does ultrapenguin 1.1 run on a UltraSparc 10 Creator 3D ?  The
   uprocessor is a UltraSparc-IIi - 300MHz.  I succeeded in running
   rarp and tftp, but when the machine finishes loading a box appears
   in the upper left corner of the screen (sometimes it's a cross,
   sometimes an arrow) and the machine gets stuck with the message
   root child is f002ca28.  Do I need to put other files under the
   /tftpboot directory ?

The onboard ATI mach64 card is where output is going, hook a monitor
up to that video card, you'll see.  We're working on a fix, the
creator card should be prioritized as the main console just like the
PROM makes it.

So for now the workaround is to take out the creator card, and hook a
monitor up to the mach64 card.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

Re: ultrapenguin 1.1

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> Does ultrapenguin 1.1 run on a UltraSparc 10 Creator 3D ?
> The uprocessor is a UltraSparc-IIi - 300MHz.
> I succeeded in running rarp and tftp, but when the machine finishes loading
> a box appears in the upper left corner of the screen (sometimes it's a cross,
> sometimes an arrow) and the machine gets stuck with the message
> root child is f002ca28.
> Do I need to put other files under the /tftpboot directory ?

This is getting a FAQ, I'll probably put it on WWW pages.
You should add video=atyfb:off command line option, otherwise Linux chooses
your mach64 as the primary display. Alternatively do video=map:1
It is fixed in recent kernels.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.128 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
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Re: ultrapenguin 1.1

[Sylvain Pion]

On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 05:27:57PM +0100, Alessandro Leona wrote:
> Does ultrapenguin 1.1 run on a UltraSparc 10 Creator 3D ?
> The uprocessor is a UltraSparc-IIi - 300MHz.
> I succeeded in running rarp and tftp, but when the machine finishes loading
> a box appears in the upper left corner of the screen (sometimes it's a cross,
> sometimes an arrow) and the machine gets stuck with the message
> root child is f002ca28.
> Do I need to put other files under the /tftpboot directory ?

Same machine, same problem, but with booting on the CD.

-- 
Sylvain