Changes in UltraPenguin 1.1.9 area

Changes in UltraPenguin 1.1.9 area

[Jakub Jelinek]

Hi!

I've updated the 1.1.9 distribution (it is updated in place, as it is beta
still), so point your wget(1), mirror.pl(1) or cml(1) or whatever you use 
for mirroring to ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1.9/
or later on to mirrors. Most of the files have not been touched, so you'd
really better use some mirroring software.

Changes in packages:

XFree86-ISO8859-2	- Prereq Xfontreg, so it should not fail during
			fresh install with script error.
XFree86-ISO8859-9	- Prereq Xfontreg, so it should not fail during
			fresh install with script error.
dev			- People wanted more tty devices, so this one
			adds /dev/tty13 - /dev/tty24
initscripts		- relink /boot/System.map (if it is a link)
			if SMP/UP changes (like it is done with
			/lib/modules/`uname -r` link)
			- document sysconfig changes in sysconfig.txt
kernel			- update to CVS as of Dec, 15th
			(includes e.g. a fix for large initial ramdisks,
			ksymoops fix, some starfire changes, etc.)
net-tools		- update to 1.49, which fixes problems with 
			netstat -t
silo			- update to 1.8.5, which fixes problems with stale
			symlinks in /dev, adds a -t option to install SILO
			boot block into the same partition as second stage
			loader is (e.g. if you have Solaris on /dev/hda1
			and Linux root on /dev/hda4 (including
			/boot/second.b), then running silo without -t
			will update bootblock on /dev/hda1 (probably, if
			/dev/hda1 starts at cylinder 0), while with -t
			will update it in /dev/hda4. In the former case,
			one boots Linux with boot disk or boot disk:a,
			while in the latter one has to specify :d, ie.
			boot disk:d) and does not try to detect PROM
			version if it is run on the Ultra. Also, it adds
			a new first stage loader, /boot/fd.b, which is
			basically the cd.b loader, but loads the whole
			second stage in one read, so should be much
			faster and could fix some problems people
			are seeing with floppy booting (although my
			fdthree is just fine and used to be like that).
			Please test.
urw-fonts		- Prereq Xfontreg, so it should not fail during
			fresh install with script error.

Changes in the installer:
- I hope to have fixed the /linuxrc script which caused CD booting to fail
  (please test if you can).
- Added sunbmac driver (Big Mac Ethernet)
- Ask the user during SILO installation if he wants to install it into
  Masterboot or within the partition (see above the new -t option to SILO)
- Run kernel %post script, so that e.g. /boot/System.map is created after
  installation.
- Fix problems if one has more than 255 heads/tracks in the sun disklabel.
and probably a couple of other issues I forgot to mention.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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UltraLinux  |  http://ultra.linux.cz/  |  http://ultra.penguin.cz/
Linux version 2.1.130 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips)
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Re: Changes in UltraPenguin 1.1.9 area

[Andreas Jungmaier]

Hello everyone,

I recently installed UltraLinux-1.1.9 on two UltraSparc1. I am impressed,
as the install went out of  the box, just as I was used to by other 
RedHat versions. So, first of, thanks a lot to all who contributed to that
port.

However, I tried adding a new harddrive (SEAGATE   Model: ST39173LC),
which supposedly has around 9 GBytes, and cannot access that drive.
The message displayed at bootup is shown below. I am not sure, whether
the announcement Jakub Jelinek made concerning the most recent changes 
would help me out with this. I would appreciate any comments to that.
Message from bootup :
------------------------------------------------------------------------
esp0: IRQ 3,7e0 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DORS32160SUN2.1G  Rev: WA7A
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39173LC         Rev: 5702
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: XM-5401TASUN4XCD  Rev: 1036
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
esp0: target 6 asynchronous
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.50
esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1
GB]
esp0: target 5 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
sdb: Spinning up
disk.....................................................................
..................................not responding...
sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdb : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 
sdb : extended sense code = 2 
sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.  
sunlance.c:v1.11 27/Dec/97 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part of the announcement by Jakub Jelinek:
> - Fix problems if one has more than 255 heads/tracks in the sun disklabel.
> and probably a couple of other issues I forgot to mention.
> 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I might add, that calling fdisk yielded an error saying that /dev/sdb
could not be accessed...

Andreas

Andreas Jungmaier, Dipl.-Ing.
Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet-GH Duisburg FB9/DV
Bismarckstr. 81, 47048 Duisburg, Germany                                
Tel.: +49 (0203) 379-2728       Fax: +49 (0203) 370439
mailto:ajung@uni-duisburg.de    www.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de/members/ajung/

Re: Changes in UltraPenguin 1.1.9 area

[David S. Miller]

   Date: 	Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:58:34 +0100 (CET)
   From: Andreas Jungmaier <ajung@etecs3.uni-duisburg.de>

   However, I tried adding a new harddrive (SEAGATE Model: ST39173LC),
   which supposedly has around 9 GBytes, and cannot access that drive.

The drive refuses to spin up, it keeps reporting "not ready".
Can you verify that this disk works in some other system?

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

Re: Changes in UltraPenguin 1.1.9 area

[Peter Jones]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, David S. Miller wrote:

>    Date: 	Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:58:34 +0100 (CET)
>    From: Andreas Jungmaier <ajung@etecs3.uni-duisburg.de>
> 
>    However, I tried adding a new harddrive (SEAGATE Model: ST39173LC),
>    which supposedly has around 9 GBytes, and cannot access that drive.
> 
> The drive refuses to spin up, it keeps reporting "not ready".
> Can you verify that this disk works in some other system?

Might also be a good idea to try making the disk spin up on its own.
Seagate specs and jumper settings are available at
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/qs2num.shtml .

 -- Peter

I number the Linux folks among my personal heroes.
		-- Donald Knuth

Re: Changes in UltraPenguin 1.1.9 area

[Daniel Veillard]

> I've updated the 1.1.9 distribution (it is updated in place, as it is beta
> still), so point your wget(1), mirror.pl(1) or cml(1) or whatever you use 
> for mirroring to ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1.9/
> or later on to mirrors. Most of the files have not been touched, so you'd
> really better use some mirroring software.

  Just to announce the availability of a mirror at
    ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/ultrapenguin/1.1.9
or http://rpmfind.net/linux/ultrapenguin/1.1.9
or rsync -va rpmfind.net::linux/ultrapenguin/1.1.9/ wherever_on_your_tree

 The distribution is also indexed by rpm2html 
   http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/ultrapenguin/1.1.9/

and available for upgrades via rpmfind

Daniel

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