From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rick@dgii.com (Rick Richardson) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:04:42 +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 OK, here's the status of this UP1.1 install on the Ultra 30. This particular box has a broken onboard ethernet controller, so we used the one on the SCSI/HME PCI card to TFTP boot it. The machines internal SCSI hard drive (with Solaris on it) was also removed, an an external drive (with terminators enabled) was connected. NOTE: I sure hope that the SUN SCSI controller is smart enough to enable termination for the now empty internal drive slot, and disable termination on the now connected external SCSI bus. The first problem I ran into was that "fdisk" would bus error when trying to init the hard disk. I fixed that by going to a shell prompt, making the /dev/sda device node by hand, and then doing a "cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda". After that, fdisk was happy and I could lay down a a new disk lable and partitions. I then had some trouble accessing the CD-ROM. So I did a tftboot again. This time I couldn't get to the hard disk, but the CDROM was there. Various messages were coming out of the SCSI device driver, but I didn't write them down. After about the third tftpboot, the SCSI driver loaded and both the hard drive and CDROM were visable. I then installed the software without incident from the CDROM and got all the way thru SILO. Unfortuantely, at this point I cannot get the thing to boot from the PROM monitor. It just sits there. I was able to use the tftprescue.img to boot the machine and mount the hard disk. Everything is there. So, any ideas what my next move should be???? -Rick -- Rick "The Hack" Richardson rick@dgii.com http://RickRichardson.freeservers.com