From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:58:04 +0000 Subject: Re: Worth attempting an Ultra 30 install with 1.1???u 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 > > Jakub Jelinek writes... > > > > > > > > > Subject says it all. Is 1.1 (from the mirrors) ready to be installed via TFTP > > > on an Ultra 30, or should I wait for awhile? > > > > Unless you want to do a CD-boot, which will probably fail for you, go ahead > > with the installation, everything should be fine. > > I just tried to load UP1.1 on an Ultra 30. This particular ultra > 30 has a broken onboard ethernet controller, so we have a scsi/hme > card in it. > > The tftpboot (boot /pci@1f,4000/pci@4/SUNW,hme@0,1) works (yippee, > first time we've gotten even this far on an Ultra 30) and we get to > the install screens. > > But thats it. The ethernet driver keeps complaining that "Link down, > Cable problem?" when it tries to access out local NFS mirror. But of course > there is no cable problem, since the tftpboot process worked fine. Aha, that's the problem. Of course, the link is down, when you claim eth0 is broken. But I'm not sure what to do, as it would require quite large surgery to the installation program (which has hardcoded eth0), and solving it genericaly would require adding suport for multiple different ethernet modules during install and stuff like that. But AFAIK, Solaris also uses le0 for network installations and does not offer you the possibility to select another ethernet. That's not an excuse for us, but actually the reasoning behind it is that situations like you have are pretty rare. Other options for you include e.g. booting the tftpboot image and selecting local CD-ROM. After installation, you can obviously use another network interface instead of eth0... Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.128 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________