Date: Thu, 7 Jan 99 15:28:18 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V12 #1 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Thu, 7 Jan 99 Volume 12 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: 3/60 bwtwo and cgfour 'zaphod' problem CD Roms that work With Sun Equipment/SparcLinux Old Fujitsu Drives and a Sun2 Solaris 2.6 loads, won't boot Specs on IBM 75G3577 2 gig SCSI drives wanted SUMMARY: Solaris 2.6 loads, won't boot (2 msgs) Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #36 (2 msgs) Upgrading to a SPARCstation 2 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:35:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Allan Kelly Subject: 3/60 bwtwo and cgfour 'zaphod' problem To: Suns At Home Submissions Hi, I have built a 3/60 from a couple of old machines. It's dual headed with bwtwo and cgfour frame buffers running 2 monitors. I have set the cgfour to be the boot monitor, however the problem i describe here also exists when I set the bwtwo or the serial port to be the boot monitor. Problem: Moving the mouse from cgfour monitor to bwtwo monitor causes cgfour X display to disappear, exposing the boot output. I am told the framebuffer swapping behaviour is called 'xzaphod'ing but a net search for this term has not helped. The 3/60 is running the Sun XServer available with the Xkernel package. This is being served from a Linux box via tftp. The Linux box also provides an xdm chooser. Below is a ls of the binaries for the 3/60 [root@hector /root]# ls -l /usr/export/root/Xkernel.sun3 total 1372 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 917504 May 3 1994 Xsun lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 19 1998 bin -> sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 5 11:11 dev drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 10 15:29 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 6 1994 nfsfonts drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 4 11:49 sbin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 9 1994 usr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 473876 Sep 29 14:23 vmunix I suspect that either a: The XServer is not up to the job, or b: There is a mysterious PROM setting required! TIA, al. -- /* Allan.Kelly@ed.ac.uk .. . . . . http://edina.ed.ac.uk * Software Engineer * . . . . . Edina Data Library * * . . . . . * Doughnut by aMeringue * . . . .. * http://www.ameringue.freeserve.co.uk * * * . . . */ - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:21:17 -0600 (CST) From: John Petty d-4420 (504)257-1925 Subject: CD Roms that work With Sun Equipment/SparcLinux To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I have a Toshiba 3701 2X on ye olde 486 PC and it had no problems with Solaris x86 2.4 or Solaris sparc 2.6. I picked up a Toshiba 5701 6X that did fine with Solaris sparc 2.6 and 7 (2.7). Solaris 2.5.1 had problems with it. I could not even boot from it on the sparc 2 when I was going through my hair-pulling OS-loading excersise recently. It was apparently too fast, a message came on screen that the boot prom was trying to slow down the scsi bus - unsucessfully. I can't remember but I thought 6X was available when 2.5 came out. John E. Petty "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:55:42 PST From: "Karl Maftoum" Subject: Old Fujitsu Drives and a Sun2 To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, This may be a more unusual question :-) I have a Sun2(Actually a Sun1/100U with an upgraded CPU board). The old machine still works except for the fact that both Fujitsu M2322K drives appear to have packed it in. They are hooked up to a Xylogics 451 controller, I have reformatted the drives many times, but to no avail. The machine will normally accept a SunOS install, but either half-way through or some time after finishing the drives will develop a large amount of bad sectors etc rendering them useless. Whilst I don't hold out much hope for salvagin the Fujitsu drives, what I would like to do is substitute some other form of drive on this machine. Unfortunatly, I haven't been able to find the specs for the interfacing for these drives. Any ideas? Apart from the HDD's, the machine is in good working order. Cheers Karl ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:10:40 +0200 From: "Chris S" Subject: Solaris 2.6 loads, won't boot To: ------=_NextPart_000_002E_01BE328D.60A8B800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Sun-Content-Length: 186 Hi, >I have a Sparc-2, 64mb ram, 2gb Quantum, 424mb Sun/Seagate, Toshiba 6x = CD ... >At first, it couldn't "find the boot device" ...=20 try to set the boot partition about 1GB... - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:45:05 +1100 (EST) From: Craig Dewick Subject: Specs on IBM 75G3577 2 gig SCSI drives wanted Hi, I've acquired an old Dynatek hot-swap SCSI box which currently has 4 hot-swap modules installed, each containing an IBM 75G3577 2 gig SCSI hard drive OEM'd apparently from a company called Frame Electronics. All the drives have manufacturing dates near the middle of 1994. I'm specifically after jumper details so I can figure out the wiring arrangement for the hot-swap modules as well as how I can put in my own drives. If anyone has any data on these drives, can you please type in the relevant parts and forward the info to me? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Craig. -- Sun Ripened Kernels -- http://www.zeta.org.au/~craig/srk Surplus and pre-loved Sun Microsystems equipment. Based in Waterfall (south-eastern Sydney), NSW, Australia. Operated by Craig Dewick - craig@zeta.org.au - cd@lios.apana.org.au - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:10:43 -0600 (CST) From: John Petty d-4420 (504)257-1925 Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 2.6 loads, won't boot To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Got someone at Sun who knew the answer. Solaris (at least the sparc version) REQUIRES several seperate slices. During an interactive install, I tried to slice the disk with only /, /var, swap. Being a stand-alone system at home with *only* a 2GB drive (imagine saying that 5 years ago), I did not want to run out of space on any file system. /var and swap need to be seperate but the others don't. This is a common practice among many Solaris x86 users. So I gave it seperate slices for /, /opt, /usr, /export/home, and swap. It ran through the install just like it had before except this time, it was able to reboot. This was with Solaris 7 (2.7), the Sun rep said 2.6 was the same. This information is not found in any of the documentation nor could I find it through extensive searching on the 'net. I will try to find the appropriate channel at Sun to modify future documentation to include this requirement. John E. Petty "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:29:30 -0600 (CST) From: John Petty d-4420 (504)257-1925 Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 2.6 loads, won't boot To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com One other note ... I just read the "Upgrading to a SPARCstation 2" reply from Mike Frisch where he states "You just have to remember that the boot partition (not drive) must be 1GB or less. The old PROMs do not know how to translate anything beyond 1GB." In my attempt to combine all slices except swap and /var, the root partition ended up being sized for much more than 1/2 of the 2.05GB drive. This could have been the problem all along - not what the Sun rep told me. I knew I had redone the partitions on the previous Solaris 2.6 install but that was on 3 424MB drives - "/" was less than 1GB. Live and learn, John E. Petty "We adore chaos because we love to produce order" - M. C. Escher - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:17:47 -0500 From: "Jason Schaller" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #36 To: I have Solaris 7 running on my network at home. How do I define the Default Gateway so that I can Browse the Internet? Thank You, Jason Schaller - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 22:36:10 -0500 From: Ken Hansen Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #36 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I noticed in the recent digest version of this group... "Dwight McKay (The Moderator)" wrote: > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:21:21 -0600 (CST) > From: John Petty d-4420 (504)257-1925 > Subject: Solaris 2.6 loads, won't boot > To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Hi everyone, I just joined the list yesterday and I'm glad to see that I'm > not the only one. ;^) Welcome! > I have a Sparc-2, 64mb ram, 2gb Quantum, 424mb Sun/Seagate, Toshiba 6x CD. Nice setup, should put you in good shape to learn... > I had Solaris 2.6 up and running with no difficulties until 2 out of 3 of > the 424mb drives died. This is government surplused equipment. Took out > the bad 424 drives, put in the Quantum. It formerly booted off of SCSI #3 > and now I have it booting on SCSI #2 - the 2GB Quantum. Why not set the new drive to SCSI ID#3? > The original install used the first-issue of 2.6, the latest install is > the 5/98 build of 2.6 I suspect this is a non-issue... > I can boot with the CD, quit the install program and mount the Quantum > manually - everything appears to be there. Good. > At first, it couldn't "find the boot device" ... I changed the EEPROM cfg > and it now finds the drive but complains that it can't "find the boot file". There is a file in the OS that instructs the system what disk partitions to mount, nad how to refer/label them... (/etc/something - it has been a long day) I suspect that your drive is now ID #2, but the file says to look on ID #3 for the partition with the info (boot, etc.) it wants. I suggest either checking the file (/etc/mountfs?) and making sure the device addresses are correct OR try setting the drive to the origianl SCSI ID #3. The OpenBoot PROM tells the hardware where to load the kernel from, the /etc/mountfs (or whatever it is called) tells the kernel where to find the needed filesystems. You fixed the OpenBoot PROM, but not the /etc/mountfs file... Hope this helps, Ken khansen@njcc.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 08:40:13 -0500 From: Michael Thompson Subject: Upgrading to a SPARCstation 2 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com The SPARC-2 can hold 64MB in the SIMMs and can use a 501-1823 * 4/75 (SPARCstation 2) 32M primary expansion memory and a 501-1824 * 4/75 (SPARCstation 2) 32M secondary expansion memory to increase the memory to 128MB. The first board is a S-Bus board that goes in the slot next to the power supply and has a small ribbon cable that plugs into the motherboard. The second board plugs onto the first board. Michael Thompson E-Mail: M_Thompson@IDS.net - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************