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Hi Finally found the magic to get my V480 (quad 1200MHz and
16GB mem) running Fedora 12 Beta. Here are some tricks (or travesties) I
did to get it working. . . After many noprobe boots, I finally found the trick was to
prevent the pata driver (pata_cmd64x ) from loading because it was crashing
(kernel panic - not syncing: Irrecoverable deferred error trap).
The built-in Ethernet (cassini) might have some problems causing crashes when
using the network for net install, so I put an old HME card in and use it for
the net install. Installation worked fine after that (I used the url
method pointing to another PC with http running and mounting in my web server
the full Fedora 12 Beta DVD). I booted with the net install CD on
the V480. Here is the boot command that got the V480 install working: linux vnc blacklist=pata_cmd64x blacklist=cassini I also dropped the console=ttyS0,9600 as it was causing a
hang at NMI (someone reported that before). I have not gone
back to test the cassini Ethernet yet as the HME card is working fine.
Oh, I pulled the RCS card out and used the V480’s serial port. Had
to put the power-key into the debug position, then could see obp and setenviron
as needed. After that, I put the power-key back to the standard run
position and could then use standard serial I/O to boot crdom, and then
enter boot commands. On first boot after install it looks like it hangs from the
serial console, but it booted and I could ssh into it. To fix this,
I removed the rhgb and quiet from the /boot/silo.conf so now
messages display during boot. However, there is no interactive console
once it boots. ssh works and I installed vnc for graphical access.
Here are some basic additions I needed: rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-12-sparc64 yum install tigervnc-server /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop (internal network
so I stopped it rather than poke a hole for vnc) yum install xpdf yum install control-center-extra I really appreciate all the hard work and valued comments
from the people supporting SPARC and posting on this list. It has helped
me for years since I first discovered Aurora . .. Cheers Keith PS the V480 with 4 CPUs draws about 5.5 to 6 Amps.
Would cost me almost $40 a month to run it. I guess it gets powered down
. . . . L --------------------------------------------------- System info: [root@V480 ~]# uname -a Linux V480 2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64 #1 SMP Sat Mar 13
11:56:41 CST 2010 sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux [root@V480 ~]# cat /etc/issue Fedora release 12 (Constantine) Kernel \r on an \m (\l) [root@V480 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu
: TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) fpu
: UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU pmu
: ultra3+ prom
: OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:26 type
: sun4u ncpus probed : 4 ncpus active : 4 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity
tl1 : 0 Cpu0ClkTck :
0000000047868c00 Cpu1ClkTck :
0000000047868c00 Cpu2ClkTck :
0000000047868c00 Cpu3ClkTck :
0000000047868c00 MMU Type :
Cheetah+ State: CPU0:
online CPU1:
online CPU2:
online CPU3:
online [root@V480 ~]# [root@V480 ~]# free -m
total
used free
shared buffers cached Mem:
16242
16219
23
0 1917 13248 -/+ buffers/cache:
1052 15190 Swap:
10175
1 10174 [root@V480 ~]# [root@V480 ~]# lsmod Module
Size Used by nls_utf8
1413 0 nfs
285374 1 lockd
68589 1 nfs fscache
45578 1 nfs nfs_acl
2605 1 nfs auth_rpcgss
40558 1 nfs ext2
71428 0 fuse
56037 2 sunrpc
204447 12 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss nf_conntrack_ipv6 20106 2
ip6t_REJECT
4677 2 ip6table_filter
2783 1 ip6_tables
17411 1 ip6table_filter ipv6
298352 40 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT dm_multipath
15631 0 uinput
7526 0 ses
6209 0 enclosure
7182 1 ses sunhme
26741 0 qla2xxx
238331 2 lpfc
382675 9 scsi_transport_fc 45046
2 qla2xxx,lpfc scsi_tgt
10249 1 scsi_transport_fc ata_generic
3611 0 [root@V480 ~]# [root@V480 ~]# df Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_v480-lv_root
24G 6.7G 16G
30% / tmpfs
8.0G 160K 8.0G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1
190M 27M 155M 15% /boot /dev/mapper/VGn-LV 2.2T 1.1T
1006G 52% /mnt10 fn:/ZFS2
917G 595G 322G 65% /mnt11 [root@V480 ~]# [root@V480 ~]# lspci 0000:00:03.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. EBUS
(rev 01) 0000:00:03.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer
Corp. Happy Meal 10/100 Ethernet [hme] (rev 01) (note: added to get
around cassini ethernet errors) 0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev
07) 0001:00:02.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LP8000 Fibre
Channel Host Adapter (rev 02) (this access my FC array
– 2.2TB ;-) 0002:00:01.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO
EBUS (rev 01) 0002:00:01.3 USB Controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.
RIO USB (rev 01) 0002:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer
Corp. Cassini 10/100/1000 (rev 11) 0003:00:01.0 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer
Corp. Cassini 10/100/1000 (rev 11) 0003:00:02.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200
64-bit Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 05) [root@V480 ~]# |
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