[suse-sparc] Feedback on SuSE-7.3 on Sparc(beta1) for Blade 100

From: Laurent Burgbacher (burgbach@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 01:08:41 PDT

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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:08:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laurent Burgbacher <burgbach@yahoo.com>
Subject: [suse-sparc] Feedback on SuSE-7.3 on Sparc(beta1) for Blade 100

    Hi,

    I've tried the beta 1 on my blade 100. I could finally
    get it boot by using (at SILO boot prompt) :

    /boot/vmlinuz53 initrd=/boot/initrd32

    Using the initrd64 won't boot and result in a error
    message (MMU access error, or something like that,
    oups, I should have written it, I'll check at home).
    Any idea why ?

    I could install it properly, but could not use
    ReiserFS, yast1 tells me that the kernell doesn't
    support it when it tries to mount the newly created
    partition.

    When I try to use yast2, my screen turns on and off
    once every 5 seconds, making it hard to use.

    The mouse (USB) is not detected by gpm (using the USB
    preset), resulting in a :

    oops, no /dev/mouse

    And finally, when halting with "halt", everything
    closes properly, but the blade ends up with a weird
    screen, a mix between a linux console, and an unusable
    PROM prompt. I must hold the poweroff button some
    seconds to power it off completely.

    Anyway, I really enjoy using linux on Sparc, thanks
    for the work !

    Laurent Burgbacher

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