From: David List (david_at_davidlist.dk)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 16:35:24 CEST
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 16:35:24 +0200 (CEST) From: David List <david@davidlist.dk> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305231628150.12643-100000@dt.initio.dk> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Sparc Classic: ethernet hardware issue
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Will Roberts wrote:
>I am trying to install SuSE linux 7.3 for Sparc onto an old Sparc Classic.
>All is well except I discovered that the Classic has a bad on-board
>ethernet port. This causes both the obvious problem (no network connection)
>and the side effect of:
>
> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> etc.
...<snip>...
You are not telling whether that is the case, but I bet you are running
the system headless, right? If I'm right, your problem has probably got
nothing to do with the networking device. I had exactly the same problem
right after installing on my Ultra1, which I run headless.
The solution (well, the symptom-treatment, to be exact) was to
outcomment the 'mingetty' lines in /etc/inittab. I don't know how to
*really* cure the problem. I have seen it mentioned somewhere that this
might be about a bug in 'init'. Remember to remove the outcommenting
from the lines in /etc/inittab, when you connect monitor and keyboard to
the system again.
Best regards,
David List
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