3:14 p.m.
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 $40
a month to run it. I guess it gets powered down . . . . L
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System info:
[root@V480 ~]# uname -a
Linux V480 2.6.32.9-72.fc12.sparc64 #1 SMP Sat Mar 13 11:56:41 CST 2010
sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux
[root@V480 ~]# cat /etc/issue
Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
Kernel \r on an \m (\l)
[root@V480 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)
fpu : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU
pmu : ultra3+
prom : OBP 4.13.0 2004/01/19 18:26
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 4
ncpus active : 4
D$ 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 ~]#