Installing Debian on Sun 280r?

[Michael Schreiber]

Hi,

I have to install Debian 3.0r2 on Sparc 280R.

# boot cdrom
Loading initial ramdisk
Instruction Access Error
ok Illegal Instruction
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
Memory Address not Aligned

--> google report: maybe a problem with the UltraSparc III+ CPU

www.sparclinux.net --> report: support with new imagfe
I found a image boot.bin (1.44MB) but i have no disk drive in the server.

Anybody succeded in installing debian on Sun Fire 280R or
have an suggestion?

Thanks in advanced
mike

[Gavin Maltby]

Michael Schreiber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to install Debian 3.0r2 on Sparc 280R.
>
> # boot cdrom
> Loading initial ramdisk
> Instruction Access Error
> ok Illegal Instruction
> Fast Data Access MMU Miss
> Memory Address not Aligned
>
> --> google report: maybe a problem with the UltraSparc III+ CPU

Maybe, but probably not. Does it boot Solaris ok? If so I
defintely wouldn't go replacing or playing with any h/w.

The first trap is an instruction access error. That is an error
trap that can mean one of:

- uncorrectable system bus data/Mtag ECC encountered during
instruction fetch. In the above circumstances this would
likely indicate a memory DIMM problem (or that reset code
did not initialize memory correctly, but I'm sure you're
using the regular OBP/POST etc).

- BERR response from system bus during an instruction fetch.
The address presented for fetch is claimed by some device
but it doesn't respond with any data. This can mean brokeness,
but it's also very easy to arrange my jmping your PC into
lala land - eg, into device configuration space in
the hole following real device registers.

- TO response from system bus during an instruction fetch -
nobody claims the address presented as being mapped by them.
Either some hardware has disappeared (unlikely) or you've
presented an out-of-range physical address.

I'd guess the last one is pretty like - boot code installs
a silly translation into the IMMU and when it executes at that
VA it's translated into a daft PA that gives a timeout.

Gavin

[Michael Schreiber]

Gavin Maltby <G_a_v_i_n....@sun.com> wrote in news:c12dvj$6b5$1
@new-usenet.uk.sun.com:

> e first trap is an instruction access error. That is an error
> trap that can mean one of:

HI,

Hardware works fine.
Solaris runs also fine.

There is now Hardware problem.

[Dragan Cvetkovic]

Michael Schreiber <nos...@schreiber.at> writes:

You probably wanted to say "there is no hardware problem", or more
concisely:

s/now/no/

Right?

Bye, Dragan

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[Rich Teer]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michael Schreiber wrote:

> I have to install Debian 3.0r2 on Sparc 280R.

April is still a few weeks away...

> Anybody succeded in installing debian on Sun Fire 280R or
> have an suggestion?

Yeah: use Solaris on this hardware.

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[Michael Schreiber]

YES OF COURSE !

[Michael Schreiber]

As i already told:

i have to !
not i want to !

i have to install debian on this 280r!

Rich Teer <rich...@rite-group.com> wrote in
news:Pine.SOL.4.58.04...@zaphod.rite-group.com:

[Rich Teer]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michael Schreiber wrote:

> As i already told:
>
> i have to !
> not i want to !
>
> i have to install debian on this 280r!

I'm not sure if that's even possible. I'd try very hard
to change the mind of whoever told you to do this. Even
if it is possible, it's not advisable.

[Kean Stump]

I couldn't work around that data access error when I was installing mine. My workaround was
to install Debian on an Ultra 1 then move the disk over to the 280.

Kean