Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:11:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Byrne <jbyrne@thegrid.net> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009151210200.1832-100000@jason.jdog.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] success on Sparc 10 ;-)
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, Jason Byrne wrote:
>
> >
> > ok... my Sparc 10 is up and running now with SuSE 7.0 -
> >
> > just a couple of notes since this is very much in development...
> >
> > 1) SMP kernel install failed on my machine - finally went with standard
> > 32-bit kernel and I was able to complete the installation.
>
> Why failed the SMP kernel in your machine ? What are the error messages ?
well... I only saw the generic 'Errors occured during installation'... and
I couldn't recover in the installation at this point.
Not sure if it's worth mentioning - but the installation doesn't
necessarily 'crash' at this point... but trying to pick up install from
NFS /cdrom mount doesn't start the transfer of files between machines
again.
I tried tinkering around with the Rescue system to get a bootable system -
but I think I got lost in my temporary mounts... probably mixed up the
SILO configuration a bit - not sure if I should just blame it on myself
here ;-)
I suppose I could try again and try to give some better feedback - now
that I verified I can get a running system.
I did notice the package regarding SMP detection (somewhere ;-) ) when I
was adding to the install for later - maybe this is important for getting
the kernel installed?
>
> >
> > 2) SILO configuration (Yast 1) is set up to look for /sbin/lilo instead of
> > /sbin/silo - easy enough to fix running SILO after 'lilo' failure. Of
> > course writing lilo.conf by hand isn't a big deal... but the problem is
> > probably worth noting if you like Yast. I didn't check Yast2 for the same
> > issue.
>
> You don't need a lilo.conf, /boot/silo.conf is the config file for SPARCs.
> But I wonder why YaST1 looks for /sbin/lilo, I will forward this to the
> YaST developer.
ok... this makes a bit of sense - since I did notice silo.conf on
/boot. Also - when I ran /sbin/silo to rewrite the configuration... it
doesn't give any response... 'Added Linux' or anything similar as on an
x86 machine.
I only decided I *should* check the SILO configuration because it doesn't
mention installing it during the initial setup.
>
> > 3) eliminating 'pads' in doc series keeps initial 'minimal' install (83
> > packages) on 1st CD - helpful for an nfs-mounted /cdrom.
>
> Yes, pads on the second CD is a bug and will be changed for the next
> release.
>
> Thorsten
>
> --
> Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de
> SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg
> Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
thanks for all the help - I'm just thrilled to have the system up at this
point.
- Jason
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