Re: A few, somewhat-quick questions..

Excellent - it looks like I've come to the right NG, Malcom!

Firstly, this is a 20GB Seagate that has been wiped by connecting it to a spare PC and booting from UBCD ("Ultimate Boot CD") and removing all partitions and writing 0's

Second, here's the POST / IDPROM output, hand copied but verified:

Reset Control: BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0
UltraSPARC=IIi 2-2 Module
Probing Memory Bank #0 0 + 0 : 0 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 128 + 128 : 256 Megabytes
Probing UPA Slot at 13,0 Nothing There
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1 at Device 1 pci108e, 1000 network
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1 at Device 2 SUNW,m64b
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1 at Device 3 ide disk cdrom
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1 at Device 1 Nothing There
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1 at Device 2 Nothing There
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1 at Device 3 Nothing There
Probing /pci@1f,0/pci@1 at Device 4 Nothing There

Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 300MHz), Keyboard Present
OpenBoot 3.11, 256MB memory installed, Serial #11514316
Ethernet address 8:0:20:af:b1:cc, Host ID: 80afb1cc

ok boot cdrom

Linux loads up, sets-up an 8mb RAM disk, refreshes the kernel, and then I get this, with a *very* long pause (around 2 minutes):

[ 4.404828] rtc_init: no PC rtc found
[ 12.178414] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
[ 12,178699] tsk->{mm,active,mm}->context = 00000000000003bc
[ 12.178935] tsk->{mm,active,mm}->pgd = fffff80010ee8000
udevd-event[1771]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit

The Ubuntu install gets to the point where it's scanning for hardware - which is significantly slower with the larger HD installed than with the original HD that came with the box - and stops at the "loading module 'ide-floppy' for 'LINUX IDE floppy'" point.

With the original HD installed, none of this happens after booting the Ubuntu CDROM and following through with the install. The only other thing is that once Ubuntu is installed it won't boot after a reboot.

Forget "Catch-22" - this is "Catch-44"

--Scott

"Malcolm" <malcolm_nospamlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20071211155107.49988225@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:11:39 -0500
"Trinean" <trinean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Scott Kindorf (KCG)" <scottkin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:GdydnVa3Kt9oS8PanZ2dnUVZ_tajnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello!
>
> I have recently received a Sun Ultra10 and an Ultra 1 Creator.
> Neither system boots reliably. I have downloaded the Solaris 9 bits
> for the Ultra
1
> and the Solaris 10 bits for the Ultra 10. I can not reliably install
either
> OS on either system.
>
> In concentrating on the U-10, I decided that I would try to install
> a
larger
> HD (30GB Seagate) than the 9GB drive that was in the box when I
> received
it;
> I also decided to try to install Ubuntu 7.10 Server on that system
> to validate the hardware changes.
>
> From all appearances and several kernel failure alerts from the
> Ubuntu install, it appears that the power supply (250W) is
> inadequate for the
newer
> HD.
>
> So, the question is: Can I simply swap-out a standard PC power
> supply for this system that has more wattage? All of the cabling
> seems to match ATX-compliant power supplies and I do have some
> spares floating around
here.
> Is it safe to assume that the power supply in this Sun Ultra 10 is
> indeed
a
> match for a standard ATX power supply?

Unless the power supply is simply going up I've used 60 GB and 80 GB
Hard Drives in Ultra 10s with no problems as long as Solaris 8 or
higher was being used. Solaris 2.6 and earlier don't seem to see the
full capacity of big drives.

The fact that Solaris 9 and 10 are failing to load at all may point
to other system problems.
What do you mean when you say you can't "reliably" install the OS?

If you can connect via serial port and run the Ultra 10 through
extended diags maybe something will pop up.

Trinean


Hi
I'm running an Ultra10 with ubuntu 7.04 with an 80GB, Quad Ethernet and
a SCSI Card and DDS3 tape drive with no issues. I have also run it with
2x80GBs and Solaris 10 fine.

--
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10.0 SP1 x86_64 Kernel 2.6.16.54-0.2.3-smp
up 5 days 19:30, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.13, 0.09


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