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Sascha Lucas wrote: |
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> we have a Sun Fire V490 with 4xUltraSparc IV+ (1.5GHz) and 16GB RAM. I |
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> want to try linux on this machines. |
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> My first Question is, if someone can confirm, that linux runs on this |
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> CPUs/System. |
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> My second Question is how to boot this machine. I tried install-CDs |
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> (gentoo, debian, FreeBSD, aurora)... All failed. The gentoo-silo says |
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> the same like in the forum: |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-430459.html?sid=d88bca7a09368b42113c1c47385ca134 |
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> Loading the kernel without the initrd leads to "Instruction Access |
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> Error" and "Stack Underflow". |
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> silo in aurora-2-beta seems to work. they use kernel 2.6.13 an a huge |
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> initrd. But after starting kernel it says something like no CPUs found |
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> (only one line). I'm not sure if this is the kernel or silo. |
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Hi. We've never had a UltraSPARC-IV machine to test with. |
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You can try my experimental ISO @ |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/experimental/ |
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It's based on silo 1.4.10 and while it does not cut it for many machines |
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models it might do in your case. It has 2.6.15+patches and |
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2.4.32+patches to try. |
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Feedback more than welcome! |
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Gustavo Zacarias |
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Gentoo/SPARC monkey |
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