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magman
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 Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: sparcstation installation scsi (esp0) problem |
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I have tried booting from CDROM to install the gentoo 1.4_rc2 tarball.
Have tried SuSe 7.3 and Gentoo 1.1a boot iso's.
All is well up to scsi initialisation when there is a repeating error on screen:
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esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
esp0: disconnect, resetting bus
esp0: resetting scsi bus
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And the boot process goes no further.
Intalling by booting the Mandrake 7.1 boot CD works fine but the kernel is "too old" to allow chroot to the gentoo stage 3 tarball.
Any suggestions please? I am in the process of downloading the debian CD's (using LOTS of bandwidth!) to give them a try too...
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magman
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Sadly, Debian iso's do not boot either. 
I suspect the esp scsi controller code has changed between 2.2 and 2.4 kernels and no longer works with the sparcstation 4 ? |
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magman
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Success!
I installed mandrake sparc 7.1 from CD which boots and works OK.
I then downloaded kernel version 2.4.21-pre4_1.0 from the debian sparc sources and rebuilt that on the sparc under the mandrake bare bones system. This now boots OK with no errors and allows a chroot to sparc gentoo stage 1.4rc2.
Will get there eventually!  |
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