1:37 p.m.
Good afternoon.
After letting the SB1000 F12beta install percolate for a while, I decided to
take my spare SCSI DVD-ROM drive out of the second SB1000, and put it in the
E6500. After the 20 minute boot up wait on the E6500 (takes a right long
while to boot 17CPU's and 20GB of RAM on one!), I was able to boot the F12Beta
ISO, issuing a 'linux vnc vncpassword=xxxxxx console=ttyS0,9600' and it
started coming up.
However, once the initrd has come up, it can no longer find the DVD. Since I'm
on a serial console, it's difficult to see what's going on. And copy/paste from
GTKTERM I've not figured out, yet....
I try to load the Sun ESP driver, but it still doesn't find anything. Any
parameters I need to pass to the driver for the SBUS ESP on the E6500 to
recognize the DVD?
2:43 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 02:37:02 pm Lamar Owen wrote:
However, once the initrd has come up, it can no longer find the DVD.
Since
I'm on a serial console, it's difficult to see what's going on. And
copy/paste from GTKTERM I've not figured out, yet....
More information:
Since I was doing a vnc install, it's possible it was looking for the Happy
Meal; there's four of them in this box, and when I started a network install,
it came up to the same point, and went on after I started the networking on
one of the HME's.
Will post back results of a network install.
2:45 p.m.
On 06/01/2010 02:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
Good afternoon.
After letting the SB1000 F12beta install percolate for a while, I decided to
take my spare SCSI DVD-ROM drive out of the second SB1000, and put it in the
E6500. After the 20 minute boot up wait on the E6500 (takes a right long
while to boot 17CPU's and 20GB of RAM on one!), I was able to boot the F12Beta
ISO, issuing a 'linux vnc vncpassword=xxxxxx console=ttyS0,9600' and it
started coming up.
However, once the initrd has come up, it can no longer find the DVD. Since I'm
on a serial console, it's difficult to see what's going on. And copy/paste from
GTKTERM I've not figured out, yet....
I try to load the Sun ESP driver, but it still doesn't find anything. Any
parameters I need to pass to the driver for the SBUS ESP on the E6500 to
recognize the DVD?
SBUS autoprobing doesn't work at all. You'll have to tell anaconda to
manually load the appropriate drivers.
This is a known issue, we still need to write a Python library for
probing the SBUS and hook it into anaconda.
(Ironically, one was written by a co-worker of mine at my begging, but
he managed to lose the final code. He swears he can rewrite it, when he
gets a round tuit, but he's a busy guy.)
You'll also need to be really patient. It takes a long time for the ESP
driver to detect the DVDROM on the bus. If, say, after a few minutes, it
still can't find the DVDROM, it would be interesting to see what is on
the other ttys... of course, over serial, that isn't going to be
practically possible. I suspect we'll need to try to reproduce this
failure on a machine with a video head, like an Ultra 1/2.
~spot
3:36 p.m.
Lamar Owen píše v Út 01. 06. 2010 v 14:37 -0400:
Good afternoon.
However, once the initrd has come up, it can no longer find the DVD.
Since I'm
on a serial console, it's difficult to see what's going on. And copy/paste from
GTKTERM I've not figured out, yet....
It should be Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V and also classic copy&paste
with mouse (mark with left button, paste with middle) if I remember
correctly. gtkterm uses the vte library used also by gnome-terminal so
the shortcuts should be the same.
Dan
3:56 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 02:37:02 pm Lamar Owen wrote:
However, once the initrd has come up, it can no longer find the DVD.
Since
I'm on a serial console, it's difficult to see what's going on. And
copy/paste from GTKTERM I've not figured out, yet....
Clarification:
The install was needing three drivers to be loaded:
1.) QLogic SBUS ISP (qlogicpti)
2.) Sun ESP
3.) Sun HME.
The pop-up from Anaconda didn't tell me that I needed to load them in that
order; the HME (last!) because I was doing a vnc install.
Is autoprobe supposed to work on these SBUS boxes? The device driver prompt
isn't intuitive; it doesn't say 'I need the driver for the device where the
install media is' then 'I need the driver for the network device for the VNC
method'.....
And if I load the HME driver before the Qlogicpti driver, I don't get any
storage devices to install to....(that is, it doesn't prompt me for any more
drivers once the HME is loaded).
3:56 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 04:36:49 pm Dan Horák wrote:
It should be Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V and also classic
copy&paste
with mouse (mark with left button, paste with middle) if I remember
correctly. gtkterm uses the vte library used also by gnome-terminal so
the shortcuts should be the same.
Thanks; I'll try that.
4:01 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 03:45:04 pm Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
SBUS autoprobing doesn't work at all. You'll have to tell
anaconda to
manually load the appropriate drivers.
Something to put in the back of my mind... and maybe to put on a Wiki
somewhere?
This is a known issue, we still need to write a Python library for
probing the SBUS and hook it into anaconda.
Should it perhaps probe what the OBP reports, walking the OBP's tree?
(Ironically, one was written by a co-worker of mine at my begging,
but
he managed to lose the final code. He swears he can rewrite it, when he
gets a round tuit, but he's a busy guy.)
I've a number of square tuits, but very few round ones.....
You'll also need to be really patient. It takes a long time for
the ESP
driver to detect the DVDROM on the bus. If, say, after a few minutes, it
still can't find the DVDROM, it would be interesting to see what is on
the other ttys... of course, over serial, that isn't going to be
practically possible. I suspect we'll need to try to reproduce this
failure on a machine with a video head, like an Ultra 1/2.
I have an SBUS framebuffer or two, the I/O cards can use that, and even the
E6500 has a keyboard port.... yes, you can run one in headed mode....I just
have to round up a keyboard extension for Sun....or a Sun to PS/2 adapter (I
think I have that item, if I can round it up).
4:05 p.m.
On 06/01/2010 05:01 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > This is a known issue, we still need to write a Python
library for
> > probing the SBUS and hook it into anaconda.
Should it perhaps probe what the OBP reports, walking the OBP's tree?
Yeah, that's pretty much what it does. We have C code that does what we
need, I handed him that and he started porting away.
> > (Ironically, one was written by a co-worker of mine at my
begging, but
> > he managed to lose the final code. He swears he can rewrite it, when he
> > gets a round tuit, but he's a busy guy.)
I've a number of square tuits, but very few round ones.....
I could swear I had more round ones, but they must still be in a moving
box somewhere...
> > You'll also need to be really patient. It takes a long
time for the ESP
> > driver to detect the DVDROM on the bus. If, say, after a few minutes, it
> > still can't find the DVDROM, it would be interesting to see what is on
> > the other ttys... of course, over serial, that isn't going to be
> > practically possible. I suspect we'll need to try to reproduce this
> > failure on a machine with a video head, like an Ultra 1/2.
I have an SBUS framebuffer or two, the I/O cards can use that, and even the
E6500 has a keyboard port.... yes, you can run one in headed mode....I just
have to round up a keyboard extension for Sun....or a Sun to PS/2 adapter (I
think I have that item, if I can round it up).
Hehe, well, that is an option. I wasn't going to suggest it outright. ;)
~spot
4:24 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 03:45:04 pm Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
You'll also need to be really patient. It takes a long time for
the ESP
driver to detect the DVDROM on the bus.
I forgot to comment on this one.... with the 20+ minute cold boot time (just
from power on to the OBP, not counting OS loading) and five minute or so warm
boot time, I think patience is a requisite for testing on E6500 (or other
E[3456][05]00 boxes..... especially when the number of processors and RAM
starts going up.....). A few seconds or minutes here or there to let the DVD
'settle' isn't that bad.... :-)
4:37 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 05:05:17 pm Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On 06/01/2010 05:01 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> I have an SBUS framebuffer or two, the I/O cards can use that, and even
> the E6500 has a keyboard port.... yes, you can run one in headed
> mode....I just have to round up a keyboard extension for Sun....or a Sun
> to PS/2 adapter (I think I have that item, if I can round it up).
Hehe, well, that is an option. I wasn't going to suggest it
outright. ;)
:-)
One big deskside tower is all I can say.... and it does need a pretty
substantial UPS.
If I were more confident in the condition of my two E3500's I'd test there, or
on the E5500, which I've cannibalized of several parts (including the power
sequencer; I'm using one from an E6000 along with the one from the E5500 as
PDU's from our Symmetras' L6-30 plugs to our Cisco 7609 and 12012 router's
lower current 208VAC requirements... those PDU's being rack mounted and all,
they work great). So the E6500 is in the best shape of any of my larger Sun
boxen, and is something I'd like to have running for a Squid/Pound reverse
proxy to our Plone site for heavy traffic. As well as a PostgreSQL server with
great throughput in its own right (I've benchmarked the E6500 with PostgreSQL,
and it is a concurrent connection beast, at least with Aurora 2.0).
Not a fast desktop system, though. (and that would be one heavy-duty desk is
all I can say....)....
In any case, it's installing right now. I'd rather do some RAID for things,
since I have two D1000 shelves full of drives, and four DiffSCSI channels to
feed them, but a single drive will work ok for now. Just have to do some work
later.
But, looking at the dmesg right now reminds me of something: is it really
necessary to have so much swap? (the autopartitioner gave me 17GB of
swap.....) it's not like this box has a suspend mode or anything.... :-)
12:53 p.m.
On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 04:36:49 pm Dan Horák wrote:
It should be Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V and also classic
copy&paste
with mouse (mark with left button, paste with middle) if I remember
correctly. gtkterm uses the vte library used also by gnome-terminal so
the shortcuts should be the same.
For the archives:
gtkterm copy: ctrl-insert
gtkterm paste: shift-insert
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