Message-ID: <CF7B77879732754A94DA3390D1C2FBAB292766@rfexc1a.psc.bellhow.com> From: "Schaefer, Robert (PS)" <Robert.Schaefer@ps.bellhowell.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:25:26 -0400 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE Linux 7.3-beta1/SPARC
Hey, I can answer at least part of your question. With minicom, stop-a is
the equivalent of a break, which is (I believe, double-check to make sure)
CTRL-A and S. That shoudl get it. As to the rescue disk thing, I found
that out the hard way as well. (SparcClassic with no monitor/keyboard)
The problem is that it wasn't designed to be run through the serial port.
In your situation your best bet is to use tftp and boot through the net.
(Its not hard, and kind of neat to watch)
Unfortunately, that's about all I can help with, but thought I would throw
that out....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sepp Käsbauer [mailto:s_kaesbauer@rosenberger.de]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 2:17 PM
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Cc: Thorsten Kukuk
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE Linux 7.3-beta1/SPARC
>
>
> Hallo,
>
> i have here a sun ultra2 200 MHz 640 MB with raid array.
> Finally i managed it to have suse 7.1 sparc running with kernel 2.4.2
> (without raid at the moment, its crashing)
>
> It was realy interesting to get the machine running because i have
> 1. no keyboard (only ttya)
> 2. no grafics
> 3. no floppy
>
> I had to learn that the rescue system on bootcd 7.1 has an error in
> /etc/inittab ( no ttya ttyS0 respan) --> 5 minuts pause
>
> I then installed tftp at one of my linux boxes and had to figure out
> that kernel 2.4.xx does not provide a rarp adressresolution etc...
>
> Until now i dont know how to get stop-a (to get an ok prompt)
> with only
> pc101 keyboard at ttyS0 and minicom as a terminal (could somebody help
> me with kermit ???)
>
>
> The only way is to boot from cd and try to type halt at the silo
> prompt...
>
>
> but anyway. I am very happy, the machine is running very fast compared
> to its only 200 MHz..
>
> ##########################
>
> Now i want to help beta testing with 7.3 ultra-sparc. This
> one does not
> boot in any way.... !!!!
> not from cd (none of yast2, zast2, manual, rescue)
>
> i get the following error message:
>
> ---snip---
> boot:
> uncompressing image
> loading inital ramdisk
> remapping the kernel .. done
> booting Linux ...
>
> ---snip---
>
> and it does not boot from tftp (not tftp64.img and not
> /boot/vmlinuz64)
>
> i get the following error message:
>
> ---snip---
> TILO selecting sun4u kernel
> Booting Linux...
> this file is not being executable (or similarly)
> ---snip---
>
>
>
> Torsten please could you compile a kernel-image with maximum
> debugging-output for me?
> if you need i send my output from hwinfo
>
> TNX in advance
>
>
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