Long ago, there was a CentOS build for Sparc under version 4.2 Beta. I checked for the torrents for either the DVD and CD binary or source isos, but no one is seeding that anymore as well. The old Sparc 4.2 beta repo was found here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/ ... but that doesn't have enough information to even attempt a netinstall or a tftp/rarpd boot/install.
Then just recently, I saw this CentOS announcement/post:
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. [...] Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release to Beta first, and then to Final."
Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html
So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x?
-- Michael
hi,
Michael Worsham wrote:
So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x?
http://sparc.centos.org/ has been available for sometime now. Were working on bringing that uptodate with the currect i386/x86_64 pkg set. Over the next couple of weeks we should have a more firm timeline and action plan.
I am sure most of you guys who want to help out can also get involved. We just need to work out how, give us a bit of time for that.
Michael Worsham wrote:
Long ago, there was a CentOS build for Sparc under version 4.2 Beta. I checked for the torrents for either the DVD and CD binary or source isos, but no one is seeding that anymore as well. The old Sparc 4.2 beta repo was found here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/ ... but that doesn't have enough information to even attempt a netinstall or a tftp/rarpd boot/install.
Then just recently, I saw this CentOS announcement/post:
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. [...] Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release to Beta first, and then to Final."
Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html
So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x?
There is a very alpha release here:
However, the code base and gcc/glibc (even for c5) is old and not so stable for sparc.
That is based on 5.1 code ... I will be trying to build for 5.2 soon
Thanks for the site/URL. I downloaded the tftp64.img and was able to get my SunFire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe) to see the image and load it via my CentOS 5 rarpd server.
However, I guess I am running into some sort of brick wall when it comes to CentOS loading the correct NIC driver to assign an IP address to the server. The V120's on-board network card is coming up as a eri0 and eri1 (Sun RIO 10/100 Ethernet [eri]).
If there a way to configure the command line via LOM interface it so it loads the correct NIC driver, sets the ip, etc? I though about something like kickstart, but the tftp64.img doesn't come up to a CentOS Linux window -- just goes directly to where it starts loading drivers for the SCSI drives, then waiting for the language location.
-- Michael
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Michael Worsham wrote:
Long ago, there was a CentOS build for Sparc under version 4.2 Beta. I checked for the torrents for either the DVD and CD binary or source isos, but no one is seeding that anymore as well. The old Sparc 4.2 beta repo was found here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/ ... but that doesn't have enough information to even attempt a netinstall or a tftp/rarpd boot/install.
Then just recently, I saw this CentOS announcement/post:
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. [...] Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release to Beta first, and then to Final."
Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html
So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x?
There is a very alpha release here:
However, the code base and gcc/glibc (even for c5) is old and not so stable for sparc.
That is based on 5.1 code ... I will be trying to build for 5.2 soon
CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
Michael Worsham wrote:
Thanks for the site/URL. I downloaded the tftp64.img and was able to get my SunFire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe) to see the image and load it via my CentOS 5 rarpd server.
However, I guess I am running into some sort of brick wall when it comes to CentOS loading the correct NIC driver to assign an IP address to the server. The V120's on-board network card is coming up as a eri0 and eri1 (Sun RIO 10/100 Ethernet [eri]).
If there a way to configure the command line via LOM interface it so it loads the correct NIC driver, sets the ip, etc? I though about something like kickstart, but the tftp64.img doesn't come up to a CentOS Linux window -- just goes directly to where it starts loading drivers for the SCSI drives, then waiting for the language location.
http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/network-booting-sparc-obp-mac... first comment might interest you.
However, you will still need to work out what command you are going to pass though with what values.
I took a look, but it seems a number of the comments have been cut-off:
i.e. 'boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=...'
Since it seems that the network card driver is failing, is it possible to force load the Sun FastEthernet driver or at least boot to the Linux screen where I can add in my own command line options?
-- Michael
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Michael Worsham wrote:
Thanks for the site/URL. I downloaded the tftp64.img and was able to get my SunFire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe) to see the image and load it via my CentOS 5 rarpd server.
However, I guess I am running into some sort of brick wall when it comes to CentOS loading the correct NIC driver to assign an IP address to the server. The V120's on-board network card is coming up as a eri0 and eri1 (Sun RIO 10/100 Ethernet [eri]).
If there a way to configure the command line via LOM interface it so it loads the correct NIC driver, sets the ip, etc? I though about something like kickstart, but the tftp64.img doesn't come up to a CentOS Linux window -- just goes directly to where it starts loading drivers for the SCSI drives, then waiting for the language location.
http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/network-booting-sparc-obp-mac...
first comment might interest you.
However, you will still need to work out what command you are going to pass though with what values.
Michael Worsham wrote:
I took a look, but it seems a number of the comments have been cut-off:
i.e. 'boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=...'
Read the source, Luke! boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=http://localrepo/centos/5/os/sparc/ lang=en_GB keymap=uk<
But, it needs to be fixed.
I found that Ubuntu 8.04 has a build for Sparc. When I was loading it on my SunFire V120, I saw this via the dmesg...
sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com) PCI: Enabling device: (0000:01:0c.1), cmd 146 PHY ID: 437421, addr: 1 eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:36:34:48 eth0: Found Generic MII PHY PHY ID: 437421, addr: 1 eth1: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:36:34:49 eth1: Found Generic MII PHY
So it seems the driver for the eri(x) NICs is the sungem. So, is it possible to load this driver via the 'boot net linux...' upon a netinstall for CentOS? Because right now this driver is not being installed via the tftp64.img for Sparc builds.
-- Michael
John Summerfield wrote:
Michael Worsham wrote:
I took a look, but it seems a number of the comments have been cut-off:
i.e. 'boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=...'
Read the source, Luke! boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=http://localrepo/centos/5/os/sparc/ lang=en_GB keymap=uk<
But, it needs to be fixed.
Michael Worsham wrote:
I took a look, but it seems a number of the comments have been cut-off:
i.e. 'boot net vnc vncconnect=192.168.1.50 ip=dhcp ksmethod=...'
Since it seems that the network card driver is failing, is it possible to force load the Sun FastEthernet driver or at least boot to the Linux screen where I can add in my own command line options?
I should have been clear'er. Was just pointing out how you might pass in extra options to the installer for a net install. I wasent pointing out any specific option.
Lets now see if we can now work out what options you need, or if there might be a need for a driver disk.
Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 10:44 +0200 schrieb Karanbir Singh:
Michael Worsham wrote:
Since it seems that the network card driver is failing, is it possible to force load the Sun FastEthernet driver or at least boot to the Linux screen where I can add in my own command line options?
I should have been clear'er. Was just pointing out how you might pass in extra options to the installer for a net install. I wasent pointing out any specific option.
Lets now see if we can now work out what options you need, or if there might be a need for a driver disk.
So what happend here? We have the same issue with a SunFire V125. Is there any solution/workaround?
Chris
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